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 ...

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

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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 ...

These writings, which challenged ancient theories about the source of mountain ... It was in this environment that Leonardo da Vinci would eventually find patronage, having first approached ...

Twenty years ago The Da Vinci Code gripped the world with the ... But the story you may not know is that key parts of the theory have their origins not in the archives of The Vatican, but in ...

and empirically compare art with theories of branch thickness developed in biology,” researchers explained. open image in gallery Leonardo da Vinci's sketch of a tree illustrates the principle ...

“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 ...