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A comment on Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490).

Re:Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490) by rivaldo on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:27PM (#13189174)
I was trying to actually read the text and then I figured out Leonardo da Vinci wrote in mirror writing (writing in the direction that is the reverse of the natural way for a given language).

Apparently nobody is quite sure why he did this. weird.

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490) by gknoy on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:38PM (#13189763)
When you write with a dip pen (e.g. calligraphy), writing from left to write will smudge the ink if you are left-handed.

Writing the opposite direction preserves the same convenience of movement as right-handed writers have when doing calligraphy, and avoids smudging the ink. It seems an elegant solution for someone who is left-handed.

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