ABOVE: "Flying Machine," Leonardo da Vinci, 1490
ABOVE: "Ornithopter," by Victor Tatin, 1875
ABOVE: Ovaries, Fallopian Tubes, Uterus
ABOVE: Sketch of the Guggenheim Museum, by Frank Lloyd Wright
ABOVE: Pink conch shell
ABOVE: The Guggenheim, inside (links to museum's site, timeline of the building's construction)
ABOVE: Nautilus shell's spiral of chambers, called camerae, that this cephalopod builds for itself as it grows. Photo by Todd Gipstein
ABOVE: "Ornithopter," Leonardo
Starship Enterprise (remastered episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before")
ABOVE: Edward Lear, Self-Portrait as a Bird; GB commemorative stamps, 1988, on the centenary of Lear's death
(You can see I saved the best for last.)
