Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein. A recent study from the California Institute of Technology ...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Leonardo da Vinci’s death, a collection of his drawings are going on a UK tour next year. But if you think that “Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing,” as the show ...

In a plot straight out of pretty much any Dan Brown book, ancient sketches by Leonardo da Vinci have revealed the location of secret tunnels underneath a medieval castle in Milan, Italy. In the 15th ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Leonardo da Vinci's thumbprint and preparatory sketches for some of his most famous works are going on display to the public at Buckingham Palace, in what is being billed as the ...

A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Many say Leonardo da Vinci was the most brilliant man of all time. Now, the Da Vinci genius has arrived in Chicago for an extended stay. The Da Vinci Machines Exhibition is open now ...

Leonardo da Vinci not only invented the first refrigerator, self-propelled vehicle, and robot — he also invented the first drone. The designs reveal a self-operating quadcopter made of pine, equipped ...

A tiny sketch of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci sold for over $12 million on Thursday, setting a new auction record for a drawing by the renaissance artist. Measuring less than 8 square inches, the item ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Royal Collection Trust staff pose beside preparatory sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper at A Life in Drawing, the ...

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