eonardo adored water. He developed plans for floating snowshoes, a breathing device for underwater exploration, a life preserver, and a diving bell that could attack ships from below.

An ambidextrous, paranoid dyslexic, Leonardo could draw forward with one hand while writing backward with the other, producing a mirror-image script that others found difficult to read
--which was exactly the point.

Fun Facts

Leonardo da Vinci's tank drawing

Mirror Writing

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During his last days, Leonardo da Vinci was appointed by the King of France to engineer war machines.