Here are some of the things you didn’t know about Leonardo Da Vinci.
*20 Things You Didn’t Know About Leonardo da Vinci*
# Leonardo narrowly beat a sodomy rapâ??possibly involving one of his male modelsâ??brought against him by Florentine officials.
# He crushed intelligent design before anyone even thought of it: His studies of river erosion convinced him that the Earth is much older than the Bible implies, and he argued that falling sea levelsâ??not Noah’s Floodâ??left marine fossils on mountains.
# Sometimes he could be such a dick: He was a big fan of puns and word games, and Folio 44 of his Codex Arundel contains a long list of playful synonyms for penis.
# Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester in 1995 for $30 million. This manuscript, the only one not held in Europe, includes da Vinci’s studies on hydraulics and the movement of water.…
Read more at source: Discover
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code isn’t really an accurate depiction of the great Leonardo.
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