DvD/Discworld
Jan. 22nd, 2019 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meridian_roseA graphic made featuring Leonardo from Da Vincis Demons inventing parachuting, accompanied by quote from The Last Hero regarding Leonard of Quirm who is the Discworld's version of da Vinci.
Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he’d never found reason not to be. He would step off a high building in the happy state of mind of someone who intended to deal with the problem of the ground when it presented itself.
— Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero
The real Leonardo did design a parachute https://www.leonardodavinci.net/parachute.jsp but the technology at the time couldn't bring the idea to life and so it was 1783 before a working parachute was designed.
Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he’d never found reason not to be. He would step off a high building in the happy state of mind of someone who intended to deal with the problem of the ground when it presented itself.
— Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero
The real Leonardo did design a parachute https://www.leonardodavinci.net/parachute.jsp but the technology at the time couldn't bring the idea to life and so it was 1783 before a working parachute was designed.
