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And 500 years later, we are still listening. Have you ever tried mirror-writing? Would you pay $30 million for a used notebook? Let me know in the comments below!

But there is another Leonardo. A Leonardo of obsessive curiosity, of messy reverse-script handwriting, and of questions so vast they stretched the limits of 16th-century science. the codex leicester

Leonardo said: No.

Leonardo wrote the Codex Leicester because he couldn't not know. He wasn't trying to publish a book; he was trying to talk to himself about the universe. And 500 years later, we are still listening

Leonardo was left-handed, and it’s believed he wrote this way to avoid smudging wet ink as his hand dragged across the page. To read it, you literally have to hold the page up to a mirror. Let me know in the comments below

In one paragraph, he jumps from the flow of a river to the cratering of the moon to the growth of a tree. He saw no barrier between art, science, and nature. To him, the curl of water in a fountain followed the same mathematical rules as the curl of hair on a human head. You don’t need $30 million to think like Leonardo. You just need a notebook and a willingness to ask dumb questions.