Reviving Da Vinci's Lost Horse

摘要

Modern advancements in computational fluid dynamics proved Leonardo Da Vinci's' 15th century method for casting a 24-ft. tall bronze horse would have been successful. In the late 15th century, Leonardo Da Vinci spent 17 years devising a plan to cast a 24-ft. tall bronze horse-the largest equestrian statue in the world-in a single pour. The horse, which Da Vinci dubbed Il Cavallo, was never made. After the full-scale clay model and necessary molds were prepared, the bronze needed for the statue was used instead to make cannons for an imminent war against the King of France. During the conflict, the molds were lost, and invading French soldiers destroyed, the clay model.