The 405-month eclipse table had emerged from a lunar calendar in which the 260-day divinatory calendar commensurated the lunar cycle,” the authors wrote.

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The Codex Atlanticus contains works by Da Vinci written between 1478 and 1518. 1119 pages have been carefully indexed and ...

According to legend, the medieval manuscript was made out of a pact with the Devil, which is one reason why it is sometimes referred to as the Devil’s Bible. The uniformity of the writing suggests ...

WHEN SOMETHING is designed right, the greatest acknowledgment you can receive is none at all: the design is so good it's invisible. Corbis should expect precisely this sort of nonrecognition. The com- ...

A dozen drawings by Leonardo da Vinci will be on view in the U.S. for the first time in a show opening this summer in Washington, D.C. They come from the Codex Atlanticus, the largest collection of ...