Leonardo's Detectives

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LEONARDO'S

DETECTIVES

ERASMUS+ PROJECT

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You have probably known that the great deal of Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches and diary pages include mirror writing. There are naturally a host of theories why Leonardo used mirror writing. Some claim that Leonardo wanted to hide his texts and studies and used mirror writing as cipher....

Dear students, After two years of the STEAM like Leonardo project you are enriched of knowledge, experience and spirit of the Great Renaissance Man. We are sure that you are able to successfully complete the missions. Remember to be careful, collaborative and patient. Your task is to find the hidden clues - usually they are invisible, so use your computer mouse to search the space.Start right now and find the first task here.

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Look carefully - the first task is hidden somewhere

Bravo!Welcome to Château du Clos Lucé in Amboise, France.Probably you know that it is the last place where Leonardo used to work.In this room you will find four interactive elements. Find them to get the password which let you enter to the next room.Enjoy and good luck!

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Leonardo's painting of St John the Baptist is one of his final works.Look for another clue.

Check the table - there is an important hint.

Leonardo's painting of St John the Baptist is one of his final works.Look for another hint.

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Mona Lisa is probably one of Leonardo da Vinci’s one of the most iconic works. This figure of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape, is a remarkable instance of Leonardo's sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling. The painting was among the first portraits to depict the sitter before an imaginary landscape and Leonardo was one of the first painters to use ..........(what?)Look carefully, here you will find the hidden message which need to be decoded.

If you found the message and don't know what it means come back to the room and search for a clue.

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The Caesar Cipher technique is one of the earliest and simplest method of encryption technique. It’s simply a type of substitution cipher, i.e., each letter of a given text is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet. For example with a shift of 3, A would be replaced by D, B would become F, and so on. The method is apparently named after Julius Caesar, who apparently used it to communicate with his officials.Use this cipher to decode the message.

Congratulations!In this room you can find some Leonardo's sketches. They come from different Codexes. One of them reveals you some secrets. Study them carefully to find the hidden hint. Good luck!

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Portrait Of A MusicianThere is no clue for you. Continue your searching.

Leonardo da Vinci’s contact lens drawing.No clue for you.

Study for the Last SupperSearch for another hint.

“The Arno Valley Landscape”This is the earliest known drawing by Leonardo. Remember the name - it will be needed soon.Look for another clue.

The Vitruvian Manwas created around the year 1487.The drawing, depicts a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. Leonardo notes that, according toVitruvius, theseare the measurements of the ideal body:

four fingers equal one palmfour palms equal one foot six palms make one cubit four cubits equal a man's height four cubits equal one pace 445215334454 21344542palms equal one man

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Decode me!You need some special decoding square.It is somewhere in that room.

A Polybius Square is a table that allows us to convert letters into numbers.To decrypt the message, you need to use this table. Each letter is made up of two numbers, the first being the row it is in and the second being the column it is in. For example the letter 'H' would be described with 23. It is the third letter in the second row.

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Use me into convert numbers into letters!It is your code to the task in that room.

Good job!As far as you know Leonardo was one of the greatest anatomists ever to have lived. He dissected more than 30 human corpses, exploring every aspect of anatomy and physiology, and recorded his findings in drawings. Analize SOME and decode THREE messages. Come on! You can do it.

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Leonardo da Vinci's extensive studies of human anatomy were hundreds of years ahead of their time.Anatomical studies of the shoulderNo clue here.

The skeleton of the pelvis and the legsContinue searching.

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The skull sectioned is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci and, dating from 1489, one of his earliest human anatomical studies. That year, for the first time, he had acquired a human skull.Alongside are careful drawings of teeth with their roots shown and numbered. Inhis notes Leonardo gives the number and position of all the teeth.Leonardo was probably the first to describe the human dental formula.Arrangement of the teeth and dental formula of one half of the mouth.The morse code explains you what to do with these numbers

Convert the message and answer the question. I'll tell you what to do next.

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Leonardo’s diagrams and sketches of the skull, skeleton, muscles and major organs fill countless notebooks while his theories on how they function fill many more pages.But it was the heart that appeared to particularly fire his interest, from 1507 onwards, when he had reached his 50s. He found that the heart had four chambers and it connected the pulse in the wrist with the contraction of the left ventricle. Leonardo also looked closely at the actions of the heart valves and the flow of blood through them. In his drawings, he used his knowledge of fluids, weights, levers and engineering to try to understand how the heart functions. Leonardo produced the first known description of the heart disorder.After decoding the name of the illnesscount amountof(basic) vowels- remember it - it will be needed.

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As you know Leonardo recorded his thoughts in notebooks. He filled multiple codexes with sketches, ideas, inventions, and more over the course of his life.You could find here a message with Leonardo's famous mirror writing: the handwriting goes from right to left, and the only way to read it is by looking at the text througha mirror.Try to read it off and ADD all numbers - a mirrow or a mobile can hel you - remember the sum.

Well done!Here you can see another sketches. Leonardo was a keen lover of the invention, painting, and sculpting, as well as an enthusiastic scientist whose interests included engineering and mathematics. Search for another clue and move to the last room.

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Leonardo was well aware of the critical role of mathematics in the formulation of scientific ideas and in the recording and evaluation of experiments.A dodecahedron is a solid shape that has twelve surfaces. Each face is a pentagon (has five edges). In total there are twenty corners (also called vertices) and thirty edges altogether. A dodecahedron which looks exactly the same from all faces.No clue here.

A page from the Codex Arundel, featuring one of da Vinci’s sketches of a diving apparatus.Continue searching.

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Icosahedron -polyhedron composed of 20 identical equilateral triangular faces with five meeting at each of the twelve verticesAn illustration to 'De Divina Proportione,' by Luca Pacioli.Look for another clue.

Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of thecuboctahedron

Leonardo Da Vinci’s knowledge of mathematics did not take off until he was in his early forties. Much of his education came through gaining knowledge by following an ongoing program of self-study. In his forties, he studied Mathematics with the Franciscan friar named Lucca Pacioli. Da Vinci’s interest in geometric shapes such as the polyhedra are visible in the many sketches scattered throughout his drawings. The Platonic solids and six other sets of solids which can be obtained from the Platonic Solids were drawn by Leonardo. Those irregular solids are get by cutting off the corners of the Platonic solids. All faces are regular polygons, but there is more than one polygon in a particular solid, and all vertices are identical.

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Find and decode the hidden information to know the nameof such solids!You need some special decoder.It is somewhere in that room.

The fraction cipher: the numerator is the number of the order in which the letter appears in a "fraction", and the denominator is rewritten using the group number. Between the fractions you can put the basic arithmetic operations.For example:ERASMUS

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Use me to convert fractions into letters!It is your decoder for the hidden information in that room.

Great!You are really the experts! In this room you will find few interactive elements. Study the room carefully and find the last hint hidden in the castle. Some information will be needed soon.

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Leonardo seemed to have a particular interest in flying, with some of his work focused on measuring wind force and designing flying machines. Using the principle of an Archimedes screw in a vertical orientation, he developed the “aerial screw”.

Head of Leda,c. 1504-06, pen and ink over black chalkThere is no clue here.

Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

“Lady with an Ermine” is a Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, from around 1489-1490. The portrait is a great example of individual Leonardo’s painting style and his unique light and shadow crossing. The Lady With An Ermine' came into Polish hands in 1800, after it was bought by the young Prince Adam Czartoryski (later a hero in the fight for Polish independence) during his tour of Italy. From May 2017, the painting is displayed in the main building of the National Museum (where)

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Find the clue and decode it!You will need a decoder.It is somewhere in that room.

Braille code is a writing system which enables blind and partially sighted people to read and write through touch. Braille consists of patterns of raised dots arranged in cells of up to six dots in a 3×2 configuration.Use this system and decode the message hidden in that room.

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Mission 1

Matching

MISSION 3

QUIZ

MISSION 2

TRUE or NOT

MISSION 4

Compendium

START!

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Mission 1

Matching

MISSION 3

QUIZ

MISSION 2

TRUE or NOT

MISSION 4

Compendium

index

WHEN YOU SOLVE THE MISSIONS CLICK HERE !

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G A M E !

matching

Play the game and match the painting with its name. Then, come back to Index page.

MISSION 1

Start!

Solve the quiz and search for the number. Remember it - it will be needed later.

MISSION 2

TRUE OR NOT?

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Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in the village of Vinci in Italy.

False

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The Arno Valley (1473), Uffizi is Leonardo's earliest known drawing.

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Leonardo da Vinci left 50 anatomical drawings.

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False

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Luca Pacioli taught Leonardo Mathematics.

True

False

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Leonardo never traveled outside Italy.

True

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173

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For sure you know that Leonardo described and sketched ideas for many inventions that were hundreds of years ahead of their time, but very few were ever built or tested during my lifetime. I wished to organize and publish my ideas. Browse my machinery sketches and test your knowledge of which invention they eventually became.

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QUIZ

Visions of the Future

Tree house

Landing gear

Slide

Select the option below that you think describes the mysterious machine best:

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This is a detail from Leonardo's Heliocopter. This mechanism, the landing gear, consists of a prop and a ladder. Both the prop and the ladder were retractable.

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"Landing Gear" is correct — great job!

Heliocopter

Umbrella

Windmill

Select the option below that you think describes the mysterious machine best:

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This is a detail of the mechanism that drives the heliocopter. Two people would run on the lower level, which would rotate. The rotation would force the upper "fans" to rotate as well, lifting the heliocopter off the ground.

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"Heliocopter" is correct — great job!

Catapult

Whip

Crossbow

Select the option below that you think describes the mysterious machine best:

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This stone thrower consists of a base, curved beam, gears, and a release mechanism. A stone would be laid on the top of the arched wooden beam and the release mechanism would be tightened with the gear. When the beam was released, the force of the release would catapult the stone into the air.

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"Catapult" is correct — great job!

Washer

Machine gun

Harmonica

Select the option below that you think describes the mysterious machine best:

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This machine consisted of three sets of guns, set on a rotating triangular drum. A row of guns was placed on each side of the drum; when the first set of guns fired, the force of the explosion would propel those guns back, bringing the next set of guns to the top, ready to be fired.

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"Machine Gun" is correct — great job!

Tent

Car

Tank

Select the option below that you think describes the mysterious machine best:

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This machine is a human powered tank. The upper image shows the tank firing. There were multiple cannons arranged around the tank. The lower image shows the bottom of the tank. Four people would work the wheels in order to move the tank.

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"Tank" is correct — great job!

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27

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Time for the last game.

MISSION 4

COMPENDIUM

LEONARDO'S NEWS

Golub-Dobrzyń, MONDAY, May 27, 2021

Solve the Rebus puzzle - the last hint from Leonardo for your future.

When you solve it, send this sentence to the teacher responsible for your group and a screenshot of this page.

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One-point perspective

Two-point perspective

Three-point perspective

Which Math knowledge did Leo use in Last Supper?

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One-point perspective

Two-point perspective

Three-point perspective

Which Math knowledge did Leo use in Last Supper?

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Air pressure and humidity

Insects, like bees and ladybugs

The structure of bird wings and air currents

What did Leonardo da Vinci study to understand that flying is possible also for human beings?

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Air pressure and humidity

Insects, like bees and ladybugs

The structure of bird wings and air currents

What did Leonardo da Vinci study to understand that flying is possible also for human beings?

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Air pressure and humidity

Insects, like bees and ladybugs

The structure of bird wings and air currents

What did Leonardo da Vinci study to understand that flying is possible also for human beings?

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Air pressure and humidity

Insects, like bees and ladybugs

The structure of bird wings and air currents

What did Leonardo da Vinci study to understand that flying is possible also for human beings?

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Search for the number and add it to the others you have achieved!

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