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media type="youtube" key="cndjLJW5h84" height="343" width="410"media type="youtube" key="mPee7biTPCU" height="340" width="406"The Italian polymath Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was the archetypal ‘Renaissance man’. His artistic, scientific, mathematical, technical, literary and philosophical legacy have been an inspiration ever since.

It may seem unusual to include Leonardo da Vinci in a list of paleontologists and evolutionary biologists. Leonardo was and is best known as an artist, the creator of such masterpieces as the //Mona Lisa//, //Madonna of the Rocks//, and //The Last Supper//. Yet Leonardo was far more than a great artist: he had one of the best scientific minds of his time. Leonardo's scientific and technical observations are found in his handwritten manuscripts, of which over 4000 pages survive, including the one pictured on the right, showing some rock formations. Leonardo write in mirror-image script from right to left, but he used peculiar spellings and abbreviations, and his notes are not arranged in any logical order. //**The Da Vinci Code**// is a controversial mystery detective novel. It was published in 2003. This novel has provoked popular interest in speculation concerning the legend and the role in the history of Christianity. Dan Brown's novel was a major success in 2004 and at times it was only outsold by the highly popular. It also re-ignited interest in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. As well as re-invigorating interest in the Church, //The Da Vinci Code//, itself preceded by other Grail books such as by and others, and has inspired a number of novels very similar to it, including Raymond Khoury's and //The Templar Legacy// by.