Category: Press Coverage
The Da Vinci Code, Octavian Report, July 2017
Leonardo da Vinci: does he even need an introduction? His work and life are known and revered around the globe. Now, thanks to advances in genomic technology, we might be closer than ever to understanding what made the original Renaissance man such a genius. Jesse Ausubel, of Rockefeller University, is one of the people leading the charge to chart what allowed Leonardo to be Leonardo.
Leonardo da Vinci’s name is synonymous with genius. For good reason: this illegitimate child of a well-off Florentine notary rose from obscure beginnings in a sleepy town to become the polymath who defines polymathy. A painter and draughtsman, an engineer and scientist, an anatomist and naturalist, an entertainer to courts and kings across Europe, he is the rare example of someone rightly celebrated in his own time whose reputation has not perceptibly diminished in the almost five centuries since his death.
The Da Vinci Code, Octavian Report, July 2017 [full article scan]
Claudia Kalb National Geographic May 2017 Article
The Leonardo DNA Project is featured on pages 49 and 54-55 of Claudia Kalb’s article about Genius in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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