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Leonardo da Vinci and Perpetual Motion
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 41, Number 1, February 2008
- pp. 39-42
- Article
- Additional Information
Leonardo da Vinci illustrated several traditional forms of "perpetual-motion machine" in small pocket books now known as the Codex Forster. He was well aware that these designs, based on waterwheel/pump combinations, mechanical overbalancing hammers or rolling balls, would not—and could not—work.