Foreword
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Delsanto, Senior Professor from the Politecnico of Turin, Italy, present difficult concepts, which would normally be accompanied by many pages of
mathematics, in lucid logic with clear straightforward figures. Their book
is for every curious person interested in better understanding the secrets of
Nature.
And you, man, who considers in this work of mine the admirable works of
Nature, if you judge it to be vile to destroy it, now think it the vilest thing to take
away life from man; if this creation seems to you a wonderful artifice, think it as
being nothing compared to the soul that lives in such architecture
Leonardo Da Vinci. See N. Pugno,The commemoration of Leonardo da Vinci.
MECCANICA (2019), 54, 15, 2317–2324.
Nicola Maria Pugno
Professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics
University of Trento
Trento, Italy
Professor of Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London
London, UK
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Delsanto, Senior Professor from the Politecnico of Turin, Italy, present difficult concepts, which would normally be accompanied by many pages of
mathematics, in lucid logic with clear straightforward figures. Their book
is for every curious person interested in better understanding the secrets of
Nature.
And you, man, who considers in this work of mine the admirable works of
Nature, if you judge it to be vile to destroy it, now think it the vilest thing to take
away life from man; if this creation seems to you a wonderful artifice, think it as
being nothing compared to the soul that lives in such architecture
Leonardo Da Vinci. See N. Pugno,The commemoration of Leonardo da Vinci.
MECCANICA (2019), 54, 15, 2317–2324.
Nicola Maria Pugno
Professor of Solids and Structural Mechanics
University of Trento
Trento, Italy
Professor of Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London
London, UK