{"id":28283,"date":"2016-07-26T06:51:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T13:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/engineer-finds-a-huge-physics-discovery-in-da-vincis-irrelevant-scribbles"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:11:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:11:13","slug":"engineer-finds-a-huge-physics-discovery-in-da-vincis-irrelevant-scribbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/engineer-finds-a-huge-physics-discovery-in-da-vincis-irrelevant-scribbles","title":{"rendered":"Engineer finds a huge physics discovery in da Vinci\u2019s \u2018irrelevant scribbles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineer-finds-a-huge-physics-discovery-in-da-vincis-irrelevant-scribbles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until now, art historians dismissed some doodles in da Vinci\u2019s notebooks as \u201cirrelevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk\/uploads\/Hutchings_Leonardo_Friction_2016_v2.pdf\">new study<\/a> from Ian Hutchings, a professor at the University of Cambridge, showed that one page of these scribbles from 1493 actually contained something groundbreaking: The first written records demonstrating the laws of friction.<\/p>\n<p>Although it has been common knowledge that da Vinci conducted the first systematic study of friction (which underpins the modern science of tribology, or the study of friction, lubrication, and wear), we didn\u2019t know how and when he came up with these ideas.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/engineer-finds-a-huge-physics-discovery-in-da-vinci-s-irrelevant-scribbles\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/engineer-finds-a-huge-physics-di...-scribbles<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, art historians dismissed some doodles in da Vinci\u2019s notebooks as \u201cirrelevant.\u201d But a new study from Ian Hutchings, a professor at the University of Cambridge, showed that one page of these scribbles from 1493 actually contained something groundbreaking: The first written records demonstrating the laws of friction. Although it has been common knowledge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50102,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28283\/revisions\/50102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}