Leonardo Da Vinci's Personal Notebook

IZ Reloaded writes "The British Library has made available 14 great books on its website. One of them is a 1508 notebook by Leonardo Da Vinci containing short treatises, notes and drawings of a wide range of subjects from mechanics to the moon. The site allows you to view the original manuscript written in Leonardo's own handwriting."

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British surgeon cracks da Vinci code

[$exyNerdie]

In other news today, a British surgeon cracks the Da Vinci code:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4289204.stm

Another version here:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_ page/0,5744,16753065%255E2703,00.html

Not the only treasure

[Junior J. Junior III]

There's the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland on there, too. Very cool!

Re:Needs Shockwave

[Seehund]

"Accessible version of the British Library's Turning the Pages system for viewing our great books."

So they do understand that the proprietary-plugin-dependent version is inaccessible! :)
Well, that's a start, I guess. Soon they might find out that it's unnecessary and pointless too.

you know why?

[spectrokid]

It is often said he was using this to encrypt his writings, but this is BS. Da Vinci was left-handed and in order not to wipe out his own writing he just wrote right to left. When he had to write to others, he simply switched back to normal.

Re:you know why?

[Anonymous Coward]

During art history class when the professor mentioned da Vinci's "code" a student at the university I attended commented "perhaps he was dyslexic". While the student made this comment he was writing class notes with his left hand from right to left at the same time he was writing an essay for another class with his right hand from left to right and yes, this was a frequent habit of that particular dyslexic student.

www.bl.uk

[rkww]

Notice how they've got a whole second level domain to themselves - not www.bl.co.uk or www.bl.gov.uk, just www.bl.uk.