Leonardo da Vinci Bridge
Coordinates: 59 ° 43 ′ 8 ″ N , 10 ° 47 ′ 3 ″ E
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| use | footbridge | |
| Crossing of | Europastraße 18 | |
| place | Ås, Viken , Norway | |
| construction | Arch bridge made of wood | |
| overall length | 110 m | |
| Number of openings | 1 | |
| Clear width | 40 m | |
| height | 10 m | |
| opening | 2001 | |
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The Leonardo da Vinci Bridge is a modern pedestrian bridge over the E18 in the municipality of Ås , Viken province , about 35 kilometers south of Oslo .
The bridge was built in 2001 through an initiative by the Norwegian artist Vebjørn Sand ; based on plans by the Italian Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519).
Leonardo da Vinci had proposed the construction to Sultan Bayezid II in 1502 for crossing the Golden Horn . The current bridge was built on a reduced scale.
See also
Web links
Commons : Leonardo da Vinci Bridge, Ås, Viken, Norway - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Leonardo da Vinci Bridge. In: Structurae
- bridge-info.org: Da Vinci Bridge (English)
- Daniel Engler: Leonardo's Bridge ( Memento from February 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), tec21 6/2002 page 14 (PDF; 467 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leonardo's measurements without units are: 40 width, 70 height, 600 length, of which 400 are above the sea and 200 on land. Babinger calculated these dimensions with the assumed Florentine cubit of 0.5836 m to 23.75 m width, 40.85 m height, 350.16 m length, of which 233.44 m above water and 116.72 m on land.
- ^ Franz Babinger: Four construction proposals from Lionardo da Vinci to Sultan Bajezid the Second (1502/1503) . With a contribution by Ludwig H. Heydenreich. In: News from the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen; I. Philological-historical class . tape 1952 , no. 1 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, p. 1-20 .
- ↑ Leonardo's letter was discovered in the Topkapi archives in 1951.