Mechanisms and Things that Move | Midterm Presentation
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Leon Ferrari (1920, Argentina):

Pantographs:
The first pantograph was constructed in 1603, by Christoph Scheiner, who used the device to recreate diagrams

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph
http://www.museo.unimo.it/labmat/pantengl.htm
http://maven.smith.edu/~orourke/DTS/pantograph.html

Making and experimenting:

First understandings:

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898 - 1972, Netherlands):

Next steps:


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We made this with Alex and Marlon, and we talk about the how the pieces are connected and in which order … It was a good task because I had never thought about Lego in this way …
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This was a really great come back to ITP
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