Photo by Joseph Tolman The da Vinci display includes a selection of models for flying machines the artist designed. Sitting in the far corner of an art exhibit in the University Mall is a machine with four long, deadly blades protruding from its intricate center of wooden gears. These pieces and others like them are at the Leonardo da Vinci special exhibit in the Utah Valley State College’s Woodbury Art Museum in the University Mall. Da Vinci had a vision of things that were before his time, and he was good at everything he set his mind to, DeSpain said. Da Vinci dedicated part of his focus to the study of mechanics and understanding weight, force and thrust movements, DeSpain said. In his sketches on display at the gallery, da Vinci used simple machines such as levers, pulleys and wheels, said Kenna Henneter, UVSC student and employee.

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