Mario Taddei

Mario Taddei is a professor of Design at the Politecnico di Milano with a degree in industrial design. He has headed many projects about innovative installations for museums. He is the author of many books and has been awarded several prizes. His book "Leonardo's Machines: Da Vinci's Inventions Revealed" was translated into 20 languages. He has been studying da Vinci for years and has coauthored new discoveries. He is Leonardo3's (www.leonardo3.net) technical director and one of its chief researchers. He is an expert in multimedia and edutainment for museums, a Leonardo da Vinci devotee and scholar, and an expert in the codexes and machines of da Vinci and ancient books of technology. In 2008, he studied for the first time in depth The Book of Secrets (Kitab al-Asrar) by the 1000 CE Arabic engineer and scientist Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi. The complete and unique study of all The Book of Secrets, all his machines and the pages are shown in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha.