Leonardo da Vinci's centuries-old sketches reveal he may have understood key aspects of gravity long before Galileo, Newton and Einstein. A recent study from the California Institute of Technology ...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Leonardo da Vinci’s death, a collection of his drawings are going on a UK tour next year. But if you think that “Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing,” as the show ...

A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were ...

After the exhibit, the drawings will be placed in total darkness for three years in order to preserve them.Ralph Alswang/DC Public Library Leonardo da Vinci's sketches are making their US debut in ...

A series of sketches and hand prints made by Leonardo Da Vinci, and hidden underneath one of his most famous paintings for more than 500 years, have been revealed for the first time. Scientific ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Many say Leonardo da Vinci was the most brilliant man of all time. Now, the Da Vinci genius has arrived in Chicago for an extended stay. The Da Vinci Machines Exhibition is open now ...

A tiny Da Vinci drawing fetched a big price of $12.2 million at a July 8 Christie's auction. The sketch, "Head of a Bear," measures only 2.75-by-2.75 inches. It is one of the painter's studies of ...

As many prominent historians have noted, Leonardo da Vinci invented the bejesus out of things. He dreamt up the helicopter and the diving suit and a 33-barreled cannon because sure, why not? But there ...

In a plot straight out of pretty much any Dan Brown book, ancient sketches by Leonardo da Vinci have revealed the location of secret tunnels underneath a medieval castle in Milan, Italy. In the 15th ...

WASHINGTON — A new exhibition is giving visitors an extremely rare opportunity to view Leonardo da Vinci sketches dating back to the 1400s. The sketches, not seen in the United States until now, are ...

Researchers have found three previously unknown sketches on the back of a painting Leonardo da Vinci that may have been drawn by the Renaissance master.Paris' Louvre Museum says the sketches feature a ...

Leonardo da Vinci is best known for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but what you might not know is that in the 1480s—hundreds of years before the first flight—the polymath sketched a ...