leonardo da vinci
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Mathematicians Are Excited About a Newly Discovered Shape
In two dimensions, it’s the Reuleaux triangle: an equilateral triangle with curved arcs connecting each corner, creating a shape with a constant width but a smaller area than a circle. Now, a team of mathematicians say they’ve scaled up the shape into the third dimension and beyond, finding it resolves a math problem that’s been…
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This Working Quadcopter Drone Was Built Using Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-Year-Old Sketches
Leonardo da Vinci is best known for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but what you might not know is that in the 1480s — hundreds of years before the first flight — the polymath sketched a design for an aircraft. Lacking the right materials, da Vinci never built or tested the…
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Thousands Have Signed an Online Petition for Jeff Bezos to Buy and Eat the Mona Lisa
For some bizarre reason, thousands of people want Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to buy and eat the Mona Lisa. To clarify, the Mona Lisa in question is not food, it’s probably the same Mona Lisa you’re thinking of — the painting by Leonardo da Vinci that lives in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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Engineer Discovers Something Amazing In Da Vinci’s ‘Irrelevant Scribbles’
Never assume that Leonardo Da Vinci’s doodles are meaningless. That, at least, is the takeaway of a new study out of the University of Cambridge, which shows that a page of Leonardo’s scribbled notes from 1493 — previously dismissed as “irrelevant” by art historians — is actually the first written demonstration of the laws of…