Following the list of things you know not of Leonardo da Vinci, there is another site with examples of the mistakes Dan Brown made in his book The Da Vinci Code.
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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.
Now it seems like everyone’s talking about Da Vinci Code, I am asked at least 5 times on whether I read Da Vinci Code. That’s a book by Dan Brown, also author of Angels & Demons, perhaps one of the most controversial fiction titles ever written.
Now that the movie is coming up, more people start to talk about it. The controversial part lies in Jesus Christ fathering Mary Magdalene a child. That statement is enough to make the church curse, I mean, scream.
My mother just went to church yesterday to listen about the mistakes that Dan Brown made in Da Vinci Code. It is the church latest efforts to attempt to let believers understand Brown’s book better. Because, once again, Brown made some factual errors. And the greatest error is perhaps to claim his book is historically accurate.
_(The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. Book cover.)_
Fictional character Robert Langdon is a professor with Havard university, an expert in symbology, a study that Brown invent some time back. Langdon got involved in the death of Sophie Neveu’s grandfather, a museum curator. Neveu and Langdon then set out to find out who killed Neveu’s grandfather only to discover nothing less than the greatest conspiracy the world would ever see.
The style of writing is similar to Angels & Demons - captivating till the last page, lots of history, lots of exageration with history and trying to make Robert Langdon the second smartest man alive, first is Brown himself of course. Unfortunately, the very attempts to boost Langdon’s character intelligence in the book didn’t quite work for me. I cringed on each moment Brown tries to make Langdon smart.
A typical sentence would be like - Most people believe so and so, but experts in the field all know that blah blah blah. No points for figuring out the expert is Robert Langdon himself. It just occurs too many times, till I feel kinda stupid at times. The suspense is still there. I have to admit that that book is one of those I read fastest. I keep wanting to find out what happen next.
I would give The Da Vinci Code novel 4 out of 5 for being fun to read unfortunately historically incorrect in many pages. The Da Vinci Code movie would probably do well too. I still felt Angels & Demons is better, do give it a try if you like The Da Vinci Code.
I read this book called Angels & Demons by much-famed author Dan Brown. I was persuaded to read this book by a couple of friends so one day, I decided to borrow it to read.
It’s quite a good book. It was captivating and there wasn’t any moment that I got bored and decided it is best to do word search puzzles.
Angels & Demons is not a fantasy book that I once thought it would be. I heard of the book of course and came thought it’s about a book on how the angels fight the demons in a world of fantasy. Apparently I had taken the book title too literal.
Angels & Demons is a book written prior to Da Vinci Code which is pretty much known to everyone now ever since it’s controversial mention of Mary Magdalene being the spouse of Jesus Christ. See! I haven’t even read Da Vinci Code and I already heard about it.
The book - Angels & Demons - is about Robert Langdon, a Harvard lecturer in symbology. I doubt that there is just a course at Harvard actually. The story begins with scientist Leonardo Vetra being murdered and than marked with an Illuminati sign. Illuminati is some secret society that is believed to be present no more. Vetra’s daughter, Vittoria Vetra, discovers that antimatter which is more destructive than nuclear weapon is missing from the laboratory. Together, they journey through the Vatican City, in search of the missing antimatter only to find themselves involved in much more than that.
Dan Brown wrote an exciting book. It’s got both religion and science. And you think they just don’t mix together. It is interesting read. Langdon’s nerdy sense of humor - however - isn’t. The book seems to be attempting to convince the reader of so many surprising “truths” that I just can’t take it at one point. There seems to be a bunch of brags about this and that. Ignoring those flaws, the book is more enjoyable. I love the twist in this book. 
This book is one of the better books I come across - not that I read a lot - 4.5 upon 5.