Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photograph of one of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches of experiments to understand gravity. Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old ...
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 ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Leonardo da Vinci's thumbprint and preparatory sketches for some of his most famous works are going on display to the public at Buckingham Palace, in what is being billed as the ...
This experiment recreates Leonardo da Vinci’s treadle lathe to test how early engineers improved rotational power for ...
A tiny sketch of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci sold for over $12 million on Thursday, setting a new auction record for a drawing by the renaissance artist. Measuring less than 8 square inches, the item ...
Leonardo da Vinci not only invented the first refrigerator, self-propelled vehicle, and robot — he also invented the first drone. The designs reveal a self-operating quadcopter made of pine, equipped ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the exhibit, the drawings will be placed in total darkness for three years in order to preserve them.Ralph Alswang/DC Public ...
A free exhibition in Washington, D.C., shows 12 pages from the multi-volume collection of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks called the Codex Atlanticus. Ralph Alswang via D.C. Public Library You won’t see ...
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 ...
Microbiomes are all the scientific rage, even in art conservation, where studying the microbial species that congregate on works of art may lead to new ways to slow down the deterioration of priceless ...
"Grotesque Head of an Old Woman," recently acquired by the National Gallery of Art, is one of several studies by Leonardo exploring exaggerated facial expression. Leonardo da Vinci, "Grotesque Head of ...