Model of a Flywheel based on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist and polymath; The Flywheel would have been used to decrease the physical effort required from the person using it by exploiting the energy accumulated due to the circular motion of the weights. Codex Madrid I, folio 114 r.

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