Happy Birthday, Leonardo
When I mentioned to Cass that today is Leonardo da Vinci's birthday, her response was:
"Send him a card."
Most of the 3,500 pages of sketches and notes Leonardo left behind are written backwards, so they would have to be held up to a mirror to appear normal. Scholars wonder why, but I know: because he felt like it. For the first few years that Vince was learning to write, if you put the pencil in his left hand he would mirror-write without any conscious planning. He just felt like it. No one ever told him it had to be any other way.
"Send him a card."
Most of the 3,500 pages of sketches and notes Leonardo left behind are written backwards, so they would have to be held up to a mirror to appear normal. Scholars wonder why, but I know: because he felt like it. For the first few years that Vince was learning to write, if you put the pencil in his left hand he would mirror-write without any conscious planning. He just felt like it. No one ever told him it had to be any other way.
posted by Gail | 3:49 PM
1 Comments:
It's also Ruth Jacksier's birthday! I think she and Leo had some of the same muses.
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