Leonardo became obsessed with the heart in the latter period of his remarkable life. He made a prediction about the main blood vessel leaving the heart, the aorta. He had figured out how the flow of ...

Stephen Campbell’s book reminds us of the lies and self-congratulations we employ to create useful history, making historical ...

Once only indicated through a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci from around 1495, concealed passageways have been discovered ...

Trees depicted in the artwork of famous painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Piet Mondrian follow the math behind their branching pattern in nature, a new study says. At such a critical moment in US ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules ...

Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ... Muslim scientists in the Middle East had been testing theories with experiments for years, but most European natural philosophers relied ...

“We analyse trees in artwork as self-similar, fractal forms, and empirically compare art with theories of branch thickness developed in biology,” researchers explained. Leonardo da Vinci observed that ...