Titre : The passion for flight: from Leonardo da Vinci to Jean Letourneur 

Auteurs : Bruno Chanetz,  

Revue : Art and Science 

Numéro : Issue 1</br> 

Volume : 4 

Date : 2020/01/22 

DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2020.0466 

ISSN : 2515-8767 

Résumé : Leonardo da Vinci has embraced the careers of engineer and painter with equal talent and equal success. However, he was not the author of the theory of theft, due four centuries later to another autodidact Frederik Lanchester, he laid the groundwork of this theory. This article recalls his quest to wrest man from earthly attraction. It continues with the evocation of the work of a physician Etienne-Jules Marey, who at twilight of the 19th century produced the first images of the fluid movement. We then present the visualizations made in the second half of the 20th century by an ONERA engineer Henri Werlé. His films and scientific photographs have been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the artist Jean Letourneur for his sculpted and drawn work, proving that still today art and science are not disjointed universes. 

Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience