Da Vinci Codex

Codex Atlanticus: fortresses, bastions and cannons

This application is a sample of the more extensive Da Vincis Codex Revealed Plus (available on App Store!). It will show you how to navigate in high definition in Leonardo da Vincis Codex Atlanticus with touch iPods, iPhones and iPads.


The Codex Atlanticus is preserved in Milans Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Its 1119 pages make it the largest collection of the thoughts and ideas that sprang from Leonardos genius for more than forty years, practically the whole of his life as an artist and scientist.

This international application, in Italian and English, constitutes the very first collection of all the best military art drawings comprised in the Codex Atlanticus: 5 sheets illustrating the development of the architectonic and scientific thinking of the worlds best known inventor on the subject of the art of fortification


Leonardos well-known right-to-left handwriting is revealed thanks to the employment of an innovative virtual instrument specially devised for this application to provide a more easily read "mirror" version of the texts.

Leonardos drawings are reconstructed virtually. The machines he imagined come alive in 3D models showing how the great genius thought they would operate.

This format (The Ultimate Codex Experience) enables ones journey to continue with other topics drawn from the pages of the Codex Atlanticus: Leonardos letters and readings, his thoughts on politics, weapons, "war machines", and much besides.

The contents of the application:

-sheets from the Codex Atlanticus
- audio description of each sheet in Italian, English, French and Japanese
-written explanations of each sheet in Italian and English
-transcriptions of some sheets in old Italian, modern Italian, and English
-a presentation of the Veneranda Biblioteca Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
-biography of Leonardo da Vinci
-calendar of the exhibitions on the subject of the Codex Atlanticus to be held at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana