As seen above, da Vinci wrote his scientific notes in mirror-writing. This may have been to discourage spying, or it may have been because he was left-handed and it prevented the ink from smudging.

A world-renowned jiu-jitsu master who was attending a friend’s wedding in Italy’s Lake Como fell off a seawall and plummeted to his death over the weekend. Octavio Couto Da Silva of Dallas ...

The character gets a nice scene in “Master of Da’Skies,” in which he explains, in detail, a dream he had about getting half-price stromboli from a pizza delivery guy after the pizzas fell on ...

Leonardo da Vinci may be best known for his artistic masterpieces, but he was also an accomplished engineer and scientist, filling over 7,000 pages of notebook entries with his observations. In his ...

LONDON — A drawing by Italian Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci, one of the last to be sold, is expected to fetch $16 million when it's auctioned on Thursday. Estimated to be more than 500 ...