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Article: RENAISSANCE MAN|Leonardo da Vinci's art only the beginning of his contribution to history
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
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- April 26, 2006
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A giant horse head rests beside a decorative bridge at the Museum of Science and Industry's Leonardo da Vinci exhibit.
If you're any kind of Renaissance person - and you know if you are - you already know a bit about Leonardo da Vinci.
He was a genius, for one. He was a painter, for another.
And, of course, there's a "code" named for him.
What you might not know - that he designed the first underwater apparatus, that he liked to write backwards and that he sketched plans for a helicopter hundreds of years before one was actually invented - you can now learn in a new exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
"Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius" opened last week and stays through ...