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calculator, the automated bobbin winder, a spring-powered car, the machine gun, the scaling ladder, etc. It is said that when Leonardo left Italy and went to France, he carried nothing with him except 10,000 sheets of paper, which was a huge number if we take into account that the largest European libraries at that time had just a few hundred manuscripts and, in rare cases, little more than one thousand. Leonardo died in 1519 and left behind the manuscripts, which today are held in the National Library of France. The real da Vinci prophecies, scattered in a manuscript codex, were published for the first time in Italy in 1899 in a book titled Frammenti letterari ¢ filosofici ("Literary and Philosophical Although The Da Vinci Code novel and film begin with a prophecy written by Leonardo da Vinci, did you know that the European genius predicted wars, killing machines, huge global natural changes, advances in communication and much more? we yi el ay ay. small village called Vinci, near Florence, and for this reason he is nown today as Leonardo da Vinci. He is seen today as a genius in the arts, one of the greatest painters of all time, and someone extremely intelligent and alented. Some people consider him to be the most intelligent person who ever ived. While Leonardo produced the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, he also created drawings of future machines hat reveal an incredible imagination, intelligence and maybe the ability to predict the future. He conceptualised a flying machine, a helicopter, the parachute, the tank, solar power, the l eonardo was born in 1452 in the ©, i wil ee coll ava Piety al ameryl ALTERWAT IVE Swine FLY MASK. NEXUS ¢ 65 THE REAL DA VINCI PROPHECIES by Fabio R. de Araujo © June 2009 AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com