Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Op 4-sep-06, om 14:53 heeft Eric het volgende geschreven: > http://www.fullflavor.be/photography/Holiday/slides/F1020008.html > > I'm guessing this is some kind of tube. I like the ambiguity. It > seems > like the center bright spot is off center because of the way the > lines of > openings aren't perfectly symmetrical. But yet, it is centered. I > like > that. This is very neat...I enjoy looking at it. I'd hang this in my > office if it were mine. So what is it? :) It's the core of a double helicoid stairway designed by Leonardo Da Vinci for Fran?ois 1 in the Chambord castle, France. See also: http://www.travelgrotto.com/chambord.htm A wonderful construction and, since I was just reading Da Vinci's biography by Charles Nicholl at that time (very recommended: ISBN 9071206831), a treat to see the result of his genius at the end of his life.