The inventive side of da Vinci

If you could walk into 13,000 pages of Leonardo da Vinci's 15th- and 16th-Century journals, if you could turn the cranks of the sturdy wooden models he built, it would look a lot like the 9,000 square feet of the Detroit Science Center dedicated to the Renaissance man. Da Vinci may be best known for paintings like the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper," and for his accuracy in depicting the Vitruvian Man, but the Science Center has focused on the part of his mind that invented and improved a...

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