Da Vinci wrote mirror. In their skriftstykker, he liked to obscure secrets

He wrote backwards. He wrote the mirror. In their skriftstykker, he liked to disguise his secrets. But some great kryptolog was Leonardo da Vinci never. He was more concerned about his inventions and his art than of ciphers and codes.

All the imaginative chifrene and konspirasjonene that are attributed to universalgeniet from Tuscany in the Da Vinci code (2003), the author Dan Brown the poem up. The thriller – which has sold hundreds of million copies the world over – contributed undoubtedly to the fact that many gained renewed interest for the tuscan artist and the inventor.

2. may is the five hundred years since the 67-year-old Leonardo died in the mansion Clos Lucé in French Amboise. Here he lived as the guest of Francis I of France.

In Da Vinci code belongs to Leonardo da Vinci a group of grandmasters who guards a historic secret about Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Clues to this årtusengamle (and fictional) secret select Leonardo da Vinci – perhaps illogical – to spread in everything from the paintings to the hidden ciphers (presumably in the hopes that no one will be able to decipher the cunning rebus-the hints).

When the book opens highly dramatic in the Louvre museum in Paris, a curator – who has just been shot – convey a hint that only the implied can interpret themselves forward to.

Now is perhaps not a dying skuddoffers first reflex to write anagrammet "O, Draconian devil! Oh, lame saint" with invisible ink and then to position itself as "The vitruviske man" on the floor. But let go. Da Vinci code is a tankelek.

In clear text forms anagrammet "O, Draconian devil! Oh, lame saint" the names " Leonardo da Vinci" and " The Mona Lisa". Via the detours led the main character Robert Langdon to a high krypteringsmaskin (which Leonardo never invented) and a set of made-up symbols and clues in Leonardo's works of art.

The legendary drawing of "The vitruviske man" (1487) is taken from Leonardo's skisseblokk and is an anatomically proporsjonsstudium confirming the claim to the romeren Vitruvius: In his Latin works De architectura writes Vitruvius that the navel is the workings of the centre and that a strong man will fill both a circle and a square.

Leonardo left behind many paintings, but is one of the world's most famous kunstmalere.

La Gioconda better known as Mona Lisa (1503-1519) – is kunsthistoriens most well-known subject. Kunstskjønnere will argue that the reason is the model's enigmatic smile. More cynical art historians will think that the fame is inspired by the spectacular theft of the painting from the Louvre in 1911.

true, Leonardo's depiction of the smiling florentinerinnen Lisa Gherardini known also before the painting came to the right in 1913, but after art theft got the iconic world fame.

Famous is also the "last Supper" (1495-1498), a fresco in Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, where the twelve disciples are in four symmetrical groups around a center, Jesus. An important point in the Da Vinci code is that the apostle John in "the last Supper" really is Mary Magdalene.

Now yes.

Did you know, incidentally, that the craftsmen started the fix on it, then the almost invisible fresco when the monastery wanted a door into the neighboring room in 1652? The door is later closed again, but can be spotted during the Jesus on the restored fresco.

Leonardo da Vinci was much more than a painter.

renaissance man says we would be as knowledgeable and versatile people who are characterized by curiosity, talent, and that is outstanding in so many areas.

Leonardo da Vinci is kroneksempelet on renessansemennesket.

As an engineer, he thought, and character, inventions that first came into its own long after his death.

Although he did not invented the airplane, the helicopter, the parachute, the tank, the calculator, the bike or bakladningsgeværet and mitraljøsen, let he designed the forerunners. He constructed an odometer (distansehjul) and anemometer (anemometer) and numerous other instruments.

Leonardo contributed to to open our eyes – to see the world with new eyes.

the Examples are many – from the understanding of physics and anatomy to the hint of a man's soul in the Mona Lisa's smile. His dissections of corpses gave the contemporary doctors new insight into the body's physiology – the skeleton and the skull, brain and blood vessels, muscles, heart and lungs.

Now one can of course say that so many things are discovered and invented in the past – as in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, in China and India.

It was first and foremost helhetsblikket and width of the Leonardo that was outstanding.

So was this with codes and ciphers, then.

Leonardo was in fact a cunning person. To disguise a message, he could find to write backwards. Yes, particularly well known is he for his mirror skriftstykker.

Some believe that he was dyslexic, and that mirror the font was easier for him to write than the right way round. Others believe he would hide the secrets for snushaner.

Regardless of is Leonardo's "kodeskrift" distant from the advanced chifferene and anagrammene in the Da Vinci code.

In note Ligny memorandum (1499) writes Leonardo:

"Find the Ingil, and say to him that you await him in the Amor and want to travel with him to Ilopan."

You don't need to be a kløpper in cryptography to solve the riddle: Ingil is his friend, Louis de Luxembourg, count of Ligny (read the word backwards), and Amor and Ilopan backwards is ... well, you do the math .

some years ago I visited Leonardo's poor childhood home on a hillside in the tuscan Vinci. Here he grew up close to the artistic, religious and economic metropolis of Florence.

Long was I standing and staring out over the soft rolling olive groves in the florentine countryside.

Just this view, I thought to myself, was pur young Leonardo and admired for over five hundred years ago.

How shaped to marry him?

His inventions and art has influenced thousands of artists, doctors, engineers and inventors who have entered into universalgeniets historic footsteps.

He characterized undoubtedly his own time.

But Leonardo da Vinci has in even greater degree, contributed to shape the future.