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Vespucci could not decipher the language used in the Journal, and spent many hours trying to understand its images, maps, and stories. However, Vespucci knew someone who might be able to decipher the Journal. When Vespucci was growing up in Florence, Italy in the 1460s and 70s, one of his friends was the brilliant [[Leonardo da Vinci]]. Upon returning from South "Amerigo" to Sevilla, Spain in the year 1500, he brought the Journal to his lifelong friend, asking him to decipher it. |
Vespucci could not decipher the language used in the Journal, and spent many hours trying to understand its images, maps, and stories. However, Vespucci knew someone who might be able to decipher the Journal. When Vespucci was growing up in Florence, Italy in the 1460s and 70s, one of his friends was the brilliant [[Leonardo da Vinci]]. Upon returning from South "Amerigo" to Sevilla, Spain in the year 1500, he brought the Journal to his lifelong friend, asking him to decipher it. |
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− | + | da Vinci meticulously copied journal pages and was perhaps the first modern man to fully translate the Atlantean language. He was particularly interested in the Journal's scientific accounts of vehicular flight, and its assertion that the sun does not move - a theory that predates [[Nicolaus Copernicus|Copernicus]] and Galileo and must have captivated da Vinci since he wrote about it extensively in his notes. |
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None of Leonardo's writings were published during his lifetime. He was left-handed, and after he saw the Journal, he had taken to writing from right to left so that his notes could only be read in a mirror. It was widely accepted that Leonardo was afraid of divulging his discoveries for fear that his writings would be controversial, if not heretical. |
None of Leonardo's writings were published during his lifetime. He was left-handed, and after he saw the Journal, he had taken to writing from right to left so that his notes could only be read in a mirror. It was widely accepted that Leonardo was afraid of divulging his discoveries for fear that his writings would be controversial, if not heretical. |