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.

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Leonardo's painting of St John the Baptist is one of his final works.

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Leonardo's painting of St John the Baptist is one of his final works.

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Leonardo da Vinci’s contact lens drawing.

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Study for the Last Supper

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Portrait Of A Musician

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“The Arno Valley Landscape”

This is the earliest known drawing by Leonardo. Remember the name - it will be needed soon.

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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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Leonardo da Vinci's extensive studies of human anatomy were hundreds of years ahead of their time.

Anatomical studies of the shoulder

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The skeleton of the pelvis and the legs

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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. In his 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

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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.

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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 through a mirror.

Try to read it off and ADD all numbers - a mirrow or a mobile can hel you - remember the sum.

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.

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

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Icosahedron -

polyhedron composed of 20 identical equilateral triangular faces with five meeting at each of the twelve vertices

An illustration to 'De Divina Proportione,' by Luca Pacioli.

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Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the cuboctahedron

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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of such solids!

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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.

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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 chalk

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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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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.

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

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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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Luca Pacioli taught Leonardo Mathematics.

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Leonardo never traveled outside Italy.

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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.

Visions of the Future

Tree house

Slide

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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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Heliocopter

Umbrella

Windmill

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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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Catapult

Whip

Crossbow

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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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Washer

Machine gun

Harmonica

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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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Tent

Car

Tank

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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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Time for the last game.

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.

One-point perspective

Two-point perspective

Three-point perspective

Which Math knowledge did Leo use in Last Supper?

One-point perspective

Two-point perspective

Three-point perspective

Which Math knowledge did Leo use in Last Supper?

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?

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?

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?

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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