A dozen drawings by Leonardo da Vinci will be on view in the U.S. for the first time in a show opening this summer in Washington, D.C. They come from the Codex Atlanticus, the largest collection of ...

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Physicists studying Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel have made the remarkable discovery that the Italian Renaissance man may have beaten Galileo and Isaac Newton to theorizing gravity. Leonardo’s ...

While racing along a freeway with air conditioner humming and a CD blasting as the glassy towers of a modern metropolis rise beyond a tangle of interlocking freeways, I often wonder, "What would ...

From June 21 to August 20, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown DC will present “Imagining the Future—Leonardo da Vinci: In the Mind of an Italian Genius.” The exhibition will ...

After a complex overseas transportation process, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library unveiled its new exhibit “Imagining the Future—Leonardo da Vinci: In the Mind of an Italian Genius” last ...

An exhibition at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, “Imagining the Future — Leonardo da Vinci: In the Mind of an Italian Genius,” brings 12 works from Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus to the ...

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A section from Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus titled "Floral composition, views on the usefulness of glasses" © Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana / Metis e Mida ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Politecnico di Milan in Italy examined mysterious black stains on a folio of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus and confirmed the presence of starch and vinyl glues in the ...