Leonardo Da Vinci's to Do List (Circa 1490)

Re:Leonardo Da Vinci's to Do List (Circa 1490) by onemoresoop on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:08AM (#17653223)

Maybe it was done for copyright reasons but the image from the notebook is flipped horizontally. Anybody else noticed this?

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci's to Do List (Circa 1490) by Tehnix on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:13AM (#17653273)

I took it as he literally wrote like that, from this line,

> You can see a page of Da Vinci’s notebook above but be warned. Even if you are conversant in 16th century Italian, Da Vinci wrote everything in mirror script.

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci's to Do List (Circa 1490) by john2x on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:11AM (#17653249)

It is not flipped. Leonardo wrote in mirrored text.

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci's to Do List (Circa 1490) by purvis on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:12AM (#17653255)

I believe he wrote in mirror script, as the article mentions.

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci's to Do List (Circa 1490) by pmiri on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @10:11AM (#17653247)

Da Vinci actually wrote all his personal works backwards, for reasons unknown!

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci's to Do List (Circa 1490) by n4r9 on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @11:14AM (#17653807)

There's evidence that he was left-handed, or at least did a lot of his work with the left hand. He may have found it more convenient to write in that direction so as not to smudge the ink, especially if he wrote quickly.

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