Beijing – A conference on Leonardo da Vinci’s dream: human flight. On September 12th at the Italian Institute of Culture, Prof. Plinio Innocenzi will talk about Leonardo da Vinci inspiration from birds to which he devoted a specific study and planned to realise several flying solutions that later turned out to be reliable and functioning such as gliders, parachutes, a prototype of a helicopter and even more more exotic machines. Plinio Innocenzi has been the Councillor for Science and Technology of the Italian Embassy in Beijing since 2010 and an honorary professor at the Luoyang Normal University. (9Colonne)
