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Leonardo da Vinci's lost sketches show early experiments to understand gravity

Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein. A recent study from the California Institute of Technology ...
Artnet

Leonardo da Vinci Hid Invisible Drawings in His Sketches. Now High-Tech Scanners Have Brought Them to Light

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Leonardo da Vinci’s death, a collection of his drawings are going on a UK tour next year. But if you think that “Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing,” as the show ...
Gizmodo

500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Sketches Show Him Grappling With Gravity

A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were ...
Yahoo

Sketch by Leonardo da Vinci Leads to Secret Ancient

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to exist. Ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning revealed that the ...
CNN

Sketches hidden underneath Leonardo’s ‘Virgin of the Rocks’ revealed after 500 years

A series of sketches and hand prints made by Leonardo Da Vinci, and hidden underneath one of his most famous paintings for more than 500 years, have been revealed for the first time. Scientific ...
AOL

Archaeologists Followed a Sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. It Led to Secret Tunnels Under an Ancient Castle.

An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to exist. Ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning revealed that the ...
WUSA

Rare da Vinci sketches now on display in DC

WASHINGTON — A new exhibition is giving visitors an extremely rare opportunity to view Leonardo da Vinci sketches dating back to the 1400s. The sketches, not seen in the United States until now, are ...
Artnet

Four Fragile and Rarely Shown Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci Are Going on View at the Met This Month

As the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance great Leonardo da Vinci approaches, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is reaching deep into its archive to exhibit four rarely shown ...
Hyperallergic

Newly Discovered Sketches Reveal Leonardo da Vinci Designed the First Drone

Leonardo da Vinci not only invented the first refrigerator, self-propelled vehicle, and robot — he also invented the first drone. The designs reveal a self-operating quadcopter made of pine, equipped ...
CNN

‘Small but magnificent’: Tiny Leonardo da Vinci sketch fetches over $12M

A tiny sketch of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci sold for over $12 million on Thursday, setting a new auction record for a drawing by the renaissance artist. Measuring less than 8 square inches, the item ...
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The genius Leonardo da Vinci's three-dimensional invention sketch, "Aerial screw" and "Armored car" painted kit

He is the author of world famous paintings such as "Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa"Leonardo da VinciIt is well known that he was familiar with science and technology such as sculpture, architecture, ...