Reporter Megan Williams tells us about an effort under way at a former convent in Florence, Italy to identify the remains of the woman who might have been the model for Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.”
The Living on Earth Almanac
This week, facts about… Buckminister Fuller who has been called the 20th century’s Leonardo DaVinci. A self-trained architect, engineer, mathematician, and poet; he’s best known for inventing the Geodesic Dome.
When you hear the word “genius,” you might think of Einstein, Mozart, or Da Vinci. But how they became geniuses is the subject of debate. Where they born that way? Or does it come from sheer tenacity?
For today’s geoquiz we were looking for the library in the Italian city of Milan that’s opened up its massive collection of drawings and writings by Leonardo de Vinci for public viewing.
