#leonardo-da-vinci

#leonardo-da-vinci

Researchers from the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project (LDVP) that by analyzing the drawing of Holy Child and other Renaissance artifacts, such as letters written by a da Vinci relative, they have recovered some Y chromosome DNA sequences that appear to belong to a genetic group of people with common ancestors in Tuscany, where the genius and Renaissance master was born in 1452. The findings, first reported in , could be the first time scientists have identified DNA from da Vinci himself.

Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in bioarchitecture because the carbonized layer protects the wood from water, fire, insects, and fungi, thereby prolonging the lifespan of the wood. Yakisugi techniques were first codified in written form in the 17th and 18th centuries. But it seems Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci wrote about the protective benefits of charring wood surfaces more than 100 years earlier, according to a paper published in Zenodo, an open repository for EU funded research.

To imag­ine our­selves into the time of Leonar­do da Vin­ci, we must first imag­ine a world with­out such things as heli­copters, para­chutes, tanks, div­ing suits, robots. Yet those all exist­ed for Leonar­do him­self - or rather, they exist­ed in his imag­i­na­tion. What he did­n't build in real life, he doc­u­ment­ed in his note­books, leav­ing behind mate­r­i­al for appre­ci­a­tions of his genius that would con­tin­ue half a mil­len­ni­um lat­er.

I am furious. My instructions had been perfectly clear: break into the Louvre, head for the Denon wing and deliver me the Leonardo da Vincis. Instead, what did they do? Brought me trinkets! Stand there, over the trap door. A bit more to the right. It would be nice to think an art collector supervillain somewhere was punishing the Louvre raiders for their moronic bad taste.

Dr Rory Mac Sweeney, a qualified dentist, claims the key to unlocking da Vinci's Vitruvian Man lies in the use of an 'equilateral triangle' between the man's legs, found in manuscript notes. This triangle corresponds to Bonwill's triangle, a shape that reflects a design blueprint seen in nature.

"In order to succeed, a perpetual motion machine should be free of friction, run in a vacuum chamber and be totally silent since sound equates to energy loss."

Leonardo’s legacy spans various fields including art, mathematics, engineering, and anatomy. His masterful contributions, particularly in painting, mark him as a pivotal Renaissance figure.