DA VINCI MECHANICAL LION
Brand: ITALERI
Item # 553102
Vendor Item # 3102S

Sheets 90/v and 91/r of the Madrid Code include drawings of
'strange' mechanisms that are not linked to the treatise on
mechanics and often have no explanatory text. Analysing them led
to the reconstruction of mechanisms enabling mysterious animal, a

mechanical lion, to move robotically.

The lion, a gift from Pope Leone X and the town of Florence, was
taken to Lyon, in France; on July 12, 1515, at the end of a
surprising, magical walk before the King of France, Francis I, it

stopped knocking somelilies over. It can be considered one of
the first animal-like robots ever built.

Snap together kit, no glue required. Includes historical booklet.