First known depiction of a parachute. The drawing (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" class="extiw" title="en:British Library">British Library</a> Additional Manuscript 34,113, folio 200v.) comes from Italy and is dated at the 1470s, thus slightly preceding Leonardo da Vinci's parachute designs. Author unknown.
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Mariano di Jacopo detto il Taccola</div>
White, Lynn: "The Invention of the Parachute", <i>Technology and Culture</i>, Vol. 9, No. 3, (Jul., 1968), pp. 462-467 (463)