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1. Morgan Robertson predicted the sinking of the Titanic

In 1898, writer Morgan Robertson published a novella entitled “Futility, or the Fall of the Titan.” In it, he told the story of the fictional ocean liner Titan, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg. Sounds familiar? Not surprising... Fourteen years later, the events from Robertson's book came true. In 1912, the cruise ship Titanic sank; The tragedy claimed the lives of 1,500 people. In fact, the list of similarities between the fictional Titan and the real Titanic is very long. The Titan was similar in size and speed to the Titanic, both ships sank in April, killing more than half the passengers and crew, and both had woefully few lifeboats. But the most intriguing thing is that Robertson wrote the book long before Titanic was even invented. How could he predict the crash so accurately? Robertson denied accusations of clairvoyance, and claimed that common features were merely the result of his extensive knowledge of shipbuilding and maritime trends.

2. H.G. Wells predicted the creation of the atomic bomb

3. Nikola Tesla predicted the creation of Wi-Fi in 1901

Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla is known primarily for his contributions to the development of modern system electricity supply In a 1909 interview with " The New York Times" Tesla shared his thoughts on future technologies. He stated: “It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages throughout the world, and anyone will be able to acquire their own apparatus for transmitting such messages.” This was simply an incredible statement at the time, since the first mobile phone was created only in 1973, and Wi-Fi appeared only in 1991. It could also be argued that Tesla foresaw the invention of Skype and video calling. In 1926, he declared that "thanks to television and telephony, we will be able to see and hear each other clearly...despite the distance of thousands of miles." In 2013, Tesla was commemorated with a statue in San Francisco that gives away free Wi-Fi to visitors.

4. Robert Boyle predicted organ transplants in the 1660s

Robert Boyle was an extraordinarily influential scientist, often called the "father of modern chemistry." He is best known for his discovery of the Boyle-Marriott law—the behavior of gases—and for his habit of conducting experiments to confirm his hypotheses. However, he is also known for always being ahead of his time. In the 1660s, he wrote a “wish list” for the future of science, noting in his journal that future medicine would “cure diseases by transplantation.” In 1954—more than 300 years after Boyle's prediction—Dr. Joseph Murray and Dr. David Hume performed the very first successful organ transplant, transplanting a kidney into a patient. Today, the procedure is used to save lives around the world—in 2014, 17,107 kidney transplants were performed in the United States alone. And this is not all that the scientist foresaw. In his mysterious "wish list" he mentioned submarines, genetically modified crops and hallucinogens.

5. Edgar Cayce Predicted the 1929 Stock Market Crash

Edgar Cayce was an extremely popular mystic in the early 1920s. While in a trance, he answered any questions, ranging from personal problems to national politics, and could also boast big amount famous clients including Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Edison. In 1925, Cayce began to talk about the fact that within four years a catastrophic economic depression would begin in America. Some clients heeded Casey's warnings and withdrew their savings from banks. As the mystic predicted, in 1929 the New York Stock Exchange crashed. 13 million people were unemployed, and stocks did not return to normal until 1954. Casey's prophecies did not end there. In 1938, he predicted that in 1968 or 1969 archaeologists would make a discovery "under the long-standing silt and seawater beneath Bimini" in the Bahamas, which would be "the return of Atlantis." In 1968, a mysterious underwater rock formation was discovered on Bimini Road, which some people believe is part of the legendary lost city of Atlantis. He also accurately predicted the date of his own death - January 3, 1945.

6. Mark Twain predicted his own death

In his 1909 autobiography, American literary icon Mark Twain made an ominous prediction: the time of his own death. Twain was born on November 30, 1835, shortly after Halley's Comet came into view from Earth - as it does every 75-76 years. At the age of 74, Twain wrote: “I came with Halley's Comet in 1835. It will happen again in next year, and I will leave with her." And Twain died on April 21, 1910, the day after the comet reappeared. And this is not the only time Twain accurately predicted the future. In 1898, he wrote a short science fiction story called “From the London Times of 1904,” which predicted future events. In it, he described a device called a "Telelectroscope" that was "linked to the telephone systems of the world" and allowed "everyone to observe daily events occurring anywhere in the world." And we can say with confidence that Twain predicted the Internet 90 years before Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web.

7. Jules Verne predicted the moon landing

Another writer whose work has proven to be eerily accurate is Jules Verne, the 19th-century French novelist who wrote the classic adventure novel Around the World in 80 Days. In 1865, he published a short science fiction story called From the Earth to the Moon, which described the very first manned flight to the Moon. And on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made “a huge leap in human history” by setting foot on the surface of the Moon, almost a century after Jules Verne foresaw it. But Verne's suggestion that travel to the moon would one day be possible is not the only thing that made his prediction famous. There were similarities between the real Apollo mission and the journey made in From the Earth to the Moon, such as the number of astronauts on board and the fact that both rockets launched from Florida. However, the most eerie coincidence is that Verne described the feeling of weightlessness that the astronauts experienced. At the time he wrote his story, scientists did not know that gravity behaves differently in space, so it is completely incomprehensible how he described something that he did not know about at all.

8. Alexis De Tocqueville predicted Cold War in 1840

In the 1840s, America had been independent from Britain for just over 60 years, and the Civil War split the country almost in half. Moreover, Russia was still under the oppressive and hierarchical leadership of the Tsarist regime. And no one would have thought that these two countries would become the two major superpowers vying for global supremacy just over a century later. So the prediction French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville made in his 1840 publication Democracy in America seems rather strange. He wrote: “There are two great peoples in the world who, starting from different ends, are moving towards the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans ... each of them wants to be first and holds in its hands the destinies of half the world.” The last half of the 20th century was characterized by increasingly tense relations between America and the Soviet Union, which attempted to outdo each other in nuclear weapons development, space exploration, and international influence.

9. Nostradamus predicted the Great Fire of London

The prophecies of the 16th century French pharmacist and seer Michel de Nostredame are legendary. He was credited with predicting a huge number of major world events, even those that occurred more than four centuries after his death. One of Nostradamus' most famous predictions is the Great Fire of London, which struck the city in 1666 and destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 residents. In his 1555 book, Centuries, he wrote: "The blood of justice shall be shed on London burning in flames 66." It's creepy, isn't it? In addition, it can be argued that Nostradamus predicted the French Revolution of 1789. He stated: "The enslaved population will sing, chant and demand while princes and lords are held captive in prisons." This is very similar to how the trampled peasant majority rose up and arrested the French aristocracy during the revolution. Nostradamus also spoke of "headless idiots", which could refer to the thousands of people executed by guillotine, including King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette. However, Nostradamus' predictions should be taken with a grain of salt. His notes were so extensive that a diligent translator could find predictions for almost anything he wanted within the scope of his work.

10. Predictions of Leonardo da Vinci

Scientist, artist, mathematician, musician... exists great amount areas in which the Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci was an expert. But was he a prophet? Da Vinci's notebooks, where he recorded his thoughts from the mid-1480s until his death in 1519, are littered with designs for inventions and technologies that are completely out of touch with his time. It is incorrect to attribute the invention of these things to Da Vinci, since his drawings were not detailed plans of how these things would work, but you could call them predictions of inventions that might exist. For example, he drafted a huge armored military vehicle– more than 400 years before it became a reality. Additionally, da Vinci once drew a diagram of an early parachute, three centuries before André-Jacques Garnerin's first jump in 1797. In 2000, skydiver Adrian Nicholas tested a parachute designed by da Vinci, using it to safely jump from a hot air balloon at an altitude of 3,000 meters. He described the flight as smoother than a modern parachute, but the design weighed 9 times more than modern parachutes and did increase the risk of injury upon landing.

In medieval works there are descriptions jet aircraft and time travel. So, for example, there is a mention of a certain machine of the future, which was designed by Nostradamus.

It is known that Nostradamus carried out his prophecies not entirely with the help of astrology, but with the help of a special machine, the secret of which he read in medieval Arabic manuscripts. Leonadro da Vinci - some called him a genius, others a superman.

Some argued that the artist practices black magic - how else can one explain that he was several centuries ahead of his time? Someone or something seemed to be dictating information to him about future events. The artist encrypted his prophecies in the form of riddles, and wrote the texts of mysterious puzzles from right to left - in a mirror image.

Scientists from all over the world have been struggling with the mystery of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting “La Gioconda” for decades. Where is her gaze directed?

Everyone who finds themselves in front of the canvas, no matter what angle they stand at, assures that the Mona Lisa is looking exactly at him. December 2011 year, American scientists made an unexpected discovery.

Using ordinary mirrors, they studied this and several other paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. All the artist’s canvases were united by one feature - the heroes depicted on them looked as if into emptiness.

But the researchers found out that the characters’ gaze is fixed on some invisible object. By moving mirrors across the surface of the painting, researchers looked for the key to the secret of the great artist’s paintings.

Work on each painting took several months, and at the end of each experiment, scientists expected the same shocking result - a fragment of the image, reflected in the mirror, formed a mysterious figure. The researchers couldn’t believe their eyes—the Mona Lisa was not looking into emptiness, but at some mysterious creature in a mask.

The same image is repeated in the famous study of John the Baptist. A strange face, whose features coincide with amazing accuracy, is encrypted in several dozen paintings by the great artist.

And, if you look closely, it exactly resembles a modern description of aliens. Leonardo da Vinci believed that a mirror was a way to hide information and in fact it was one of the first ciphers ever invented.

What secret code was Da Vinci trying to convey, to whom was this message addressed, and why is the key to the solution hidden in the mirror image?

“...And an ominous feathered race will fly through the air. They will attack people and animals and feed on them with great screaming. They will fill their belly with their scarlet blood..."

Researchers are sure that in this allegorical way the artist spoke about the creation aircraft.

But the most important thing is that scientists were able to decipher the mysterious messages of Leonardo da Vinci quite recently; before that, his notes seemed to be nothing more than a chaotic set of letters. The key to unraveling the artist's secret turned out to be as simple as anything ingenious - an ordinary mirror.

He wrote his notes in a strange handwriting and for a long time they could not understand how it could be read, until one day someone realized that if a mirror was placed above the page of the manuscript, then in the mirror this code would be presented in the form of a completely understandable alphabet.

Mysterious predictions

Among Leonardo's prose works there are the mysterious "Predictions".

“...An ominous feathered race will fly through the air; they will attack people and animals and feed on them with great screaming. They will fill their belly with scarlet blood..."

- prediction, experts say, is very similar to the creation of aircraft, airplanes and helicopters. “People will talk to each other from the most distant countries and answer each other” - what is this if not a prediction of the invention of telephone, telegraph and radio communications?

“...Many will be seen rushing on large animals in a fast race to their destruction own life and for a speedy death. Animals of different colors will be seen on the ground, carrying people to the destruction of their lives..."

- cars and all kinds of armored vehicles.

“... There will be many who will move one against the other, holding a sharp iron in their hands; they will not cause each other any harm other than fatigue, for as much as one bends forward, the other will lean back. But woe to the one who falls in the middle between them, for he will end up cut to pieces..."

- two-handed saw.

“... There will be many who will skin their mother, turning her skin over her, using a terrible beast for this...”

- Agreecultural machines. Agreecultural equipment.

Another saying applies to this:

“... It will be seen how they turn the earth upside down and look at the opposite hemispheres and open the burrows of the most ferocious animals...”

“Animal skins will bring people out of silence with great screams and curses” - sports balls are made of leather.

Here are predictions about possible cataclysms associated with global warming:

“...Sea water will rise to the high peaks of the mountains, to the heavens and again fall on the homes of people. It will be seen how the largest trees of the forests will be carried by the fury of the wind from east to west..."

But Leonardo da Vinci also has mysteries before which researchers are at a loss.

Then most of the people who remain alive will throw away the food they had saved from their homes for free prey by birds and ground animals, without caring at all about it. People will throw away from their own homes the supplies that were intended to support their lives. * The time of Herod will return, for innocent babies will be taken from their nurses and die from great wounds at the hands of cruel people. * There will be many peoples who will hide themselves, their children and their supplies in the depths of dark caves, and there, in the darkness, they will feed themselves and their families for many months without any artificial or natural light.

* It will be seen how huge snakes fight with birds in the air at a tremendous height.

* Most of the male race will not be allowed to reproduce, since their testes will be taken away.

Leonardo da Vinci's abilities and capabilities were, without exaggeration, supernatural. Was he even a man? There is a version that Leonardo da Vinci could penetrate into parallel worlds, where he took the ideas for his many wonderful inventions.

At that time they were truly perceived as a miracle. For example, in Da Vinci's Diaries there are sketches of birds in flight, for which it was necessary to have at least slow-motion filming materials! He kept a very strange diary, addressing himself as “you” in it, giving instructions and orders to himself as a servant or slave: “order me to show you...”, “you must show in your essay...”, “order me to make two travel bags ..." One gets the impression that Leonardo da Vinci seemed to have two personalities: one - well-known, friendly, not without some human weaknesses, and the other - incredibly strange, secretive, unknown to anyone, who commanded him and controlled his actions.

Leonardo da Vinci. Genius. Superman. Black magician

To sharpen his perception of the world, improve memory and develop imagination, Leonardo da Vinci practiced special psychotechnical exercises that go back to the esoteric practices of the Pythagoreans and - imagine! — modern neurolinguistics. He seemed to know the evolutionary keys to the secrets of the human psyche. Thus, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s secrets was a special sleep formula: he slept for 15 minutes every 4 hours, thus reducing his daily sleep from 8 to 1.5 hours. Thanks to this, the genius immediately saved 75 percent of his sleep time, which actually extended his lifespan from 70 to 100 years!

Master's Workshop

And after five centuries, the mysteries and secrets of the genius of the Renaissance never cease to amaze our contemporaries.
Italian researchers recently discovered Leonardo da Vinci's secret workshop. It is located in the building of the monastery of St. Annunziata in the very center of Florence. Monks from the Order of the Servants of the Virgin Mary rented out some of the monastery rooms to distinguished guests.

The existence of the workshop was known for a long time from various documents; it was also known that Leonardo da Vinci stayed in this monastery. But the skillfully sealed rooms were not easy to discover. Behind the sealed door was a staircase dating from 1430, the work of the Florentine sculptor and architect Michelozzo Bartolomeo. This staircase led to five rooms in which Leonardo da Vinci lived with his students. The monastery offered the great scientist excellent conditions, since he was already famous. The largest room with two windows was the bedroom. In addition to it, there was also an adjacent secret room where the Master himself worked. The remaining rooms served as a workshop for Leonardo and his students, of whom there were 5-6 people.

Some details indicate that a cook was among them.
The location of the workshop was ideal. The monastery library contained a collection of almost 5,000 manuscripts that were of great interest to Leonardo da Vinci. St. Mary's Hospital was nearby, where he could dissect corpses.
Indisputable evidence that Leonardo da Vinci worked in the workshop was the frescoes in it. They evoke associations with other works of the master at first glance. Computer studies completely confirm these associations.

By the way, the family of the wealthy merchant Francesco del Giocondo had a chapel in the monastery of St. Annuciata. It is quite possible that it was in the monastery that the great painter met the merchant’s wife, Lisa Cerardini. The young woman served as the artist’s model for painting the famous Mona Lisa.

He or she?

Leonardo da Vinci, Gioconda (Giaconda), Mona Lisa

Researchers have been struggling to solve the mystery of Mona Lisa's smile for many years. Almost every year there is a scientist reporting: “The secret has been revealed!” Some believe that the difference in perception of Mona Lisa's facial expression depends on the personal mental qualities of each person. To some it seems sad, to others thoughtful, to others crafty, to others even evil. And some believe that Gioconda doesn’t even smile at all! Other scientists believe that the issue lies in the peculiarities of the author’s artistic style. Allegedly, Leonardo applied paints in such a special way that the face of Mona Lisa is constantly changing. Many insist that the artist depicted himself in a female form on the canvas, which is why such a strange effect was obtained.

There is a version that the artist, who was allegedly bisexual, did not paint himself, but his student and assistant Gian Giacomo Caprotti, who was next to him for 26 years. This version is supported by the fact that Leonardo Vinci left this painting as an inheritance when he died in 1519.

Medical opinions require special attention. Dentist and painting expert Joseph Borkowski believes that the Mona Lisa's facial expression is typical of people who have lost their front teeth. And the Japanese doctor Nakamura discovered a lesion in the corner of Gioconda’s left eye and concluded that she was predisposed to heart disease and suffered from asthma. Another version - about facial nerve paralysis - was put forward by otolaryngologist Azur from Auckland and Danish doctor Finn Becker-Christiansen, who suggested paying attention to the fact that Gioconda smiles on her right side and grimaces on her left. In addition, he even discovered symptoms of idiocy in Mona Lisa, citing the disproportionate fingers and lack of flexibility in the hand. But, according to the British doctor Kenneth Keel, the portrait simply conveys the peaceful state of a pregnant woman.

They say…

...that the great artist owes his death to the model of Mona Lisa. That many hours of grueling sessions with her exhausted the great master, since the model herself turned out to be a bio-vampire. They still talk about this today. As soon as the picture was painted, the great artist was gone.

Everyone knows that Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed and wrote from right to left in a mirror image. His early notes are completely unreadable, but over time, Leonardo da Vinci’s mirror writing took on a certain form, a characteristic, albeit barely legible handwriting. Having established the styles of individual letters, some researchers learned to read it normally, from right to left. It would seem that the key has been found! But illegible handwriting is not so bad. Leonardo da Vinci still had the habit of writing using the auditory method, either separating the syllables of one word, or suddenly combining several words into one. Add to this the vastness of knowledge available only to specialists in different fields.
Few people know that Leonardo da Vinci came up with a way to spend little time sleeping, but not suffer from it. He only slept about an hour and a half a day! Many write that this was the secret of his productivity. Today this is called polyphasic sleep.

The genius Leonardo decided that he spends a lot of time sleeping and came up with his own sleep technique. It consisted of the fact that he slept for 15 minutes every 4 hours. He lived in this way of life not for a week, but for many years.

Why does this work? Psychologists say that after sleep our ability to work increases from 6 to 10 times! And the wise Leonardo da Vinci took full advantage of this. Other psychologists say that polyphasic sleep is not suitable for everyone and before using it you should read the literature on:

- the nature of sleep
- relaxation
- proper nutrition
- healthy lifestyle

All this could not help but mislead researchers. That is why almost all the secrets of genius remain unsolved for humanity.

Riddles without answers. Predictions and prophecies

Among the prose works of Leonardo da Vinci there are the mysterious “Predictions”, which are a kind of game of riddles and clues. Most likely, he prepared them for the entertainment of court or secular society. Leonardo da Vinci gave a verbal description of the phenomenon, correct in its individual features, which, if possible, diverged from the essence of what was being described. At the same time, the most ordinary thing turned into its opposite. The listener had to recognize the thing and call it by name. Da Vinci’s task was, on the one hand, to separate as much as possible the description of the characteristics of a thing from its actual appearance, and on the other, not to break the connection between them.

Here, for example, is how Leonardo da Vinci encrypted the riddle “On Swaddled Babies”: “O sea cities! I see you, your citizens, both women and men, tightly bound hand and foot by strong bonds by people who will not understand your speeches, and you will be able to alleviate your suffering and loss of freedom only in tearful complaints, sighing and lamenting among yourself yourself, for the one who bound you will not understand you, nor will you understand them.”

Something similar was written by him about sucking children: “Many Francesco, Dominico and Benedetto will eat what others in the neighborhood have more than once eaten, and many months will pass before they can speak.”
“Oh, how many there will be who will not be allowed to be born,” he wrote about eggs from which chickens will not hatch.
Many riddles have an encrypted prophetic meaning. Researchers believe they have solved some of the puzzles. Eg:

“An ominous feathered race will fly through the air; they will attack people and animals and feed on them with great screaming. They will fill their belly with scarlet blood” - a prediction, experts say, very similar to the creation of aerial vehicles, airplanes and helicopters.
“People will talk to each other from the most distant countries and answer each other” - what is this if not a prediction of the invention of telephone, telegraph and radio communications?
“Many will be seen rushing on large animals in a fast run to the destruction of their own lives and to a speedy death. Animals of different colors will be visible on the ground, carrying people to the destruction of their lives” - cars and all kinds of armored vehicles.

“There will be many who will skin their mother, turning her skin over her, using a terrible beast for this” - agricultural machines. Another saying applies to this: “It will be seen how they turn the earth upside down and look at the opposite hemispheres and open the holes of the most ferocious animals.”

“The skins of animals will bring people out of silence with great shouts and curses” - sports balls are made of leather.

And here are predictions about possible cataclysms associated with warming: “Sea water will rise to the high peaks of the mountains, to the heavens and again fall on people’s homes. It will be seen how the largest trees of the forests will be carried by the fury of the wind from east to west.”

But Leonardo da Vinci also has mysteries before which researchers are at a loss. Maybe you can decipher them?

* It will open up... Beasts will come out of the earth, clothed in darkness, which with amazing attacks will attack the human race, and it will be devoured by them with brutal bites, with the shedding of blood.
* People will walk and not move; they will speak to those who are not there, they will hear those who do not speak.
*Countless lives will be destroyed and countless holes will be made in the ground. Then most of the people who remain alive will throw away the food they had saved from their homes for free prey by birds and ground animals, without caring at all about it. People will throw away from their own homes the supplies that were intended to support their lives.
* The time of Herod will return, for innocent babies will be taken from their nurses and die from great wounds at the hands of cruel people.
* There will be many peoples who will hide themselves, their children and their supplies in the depths of dark caves, and there, in the darkness, they will feed themselves and their families for many months without any artificial or natural light.
* It will be seen how huge snakes fight with birds in the air at a tremendous height.
* Most of the male race will not be allowed to reproduce, since their testes will be taken away.

If you hurry, you will make people laugh

Leonardo da Vinci was never in a hurry to finish a work. He believed that incompleteness is an essential quality of life. Finishing means killing! The slowness of the creator was amazing; he painted his canvases for years. He could make two or three strokes and leave the city for many days, for example, to improve the valleys of Lombardy or create an apparatus for walking on water. Almost every one of his significant works is “unfinished.” Many were damaged by water, fire, barbaric treatment, but the artist never corrected the damage, as if he gave life the right to interfere with his work, to correct something.

Good = Evil

When creating the fresco “The Last Supper,” Leonardo da Vinci searched for ideal models for a very long time. Jesus must embody Good, and Judas, who decided to betray him at this meal, is Evil.
Leonardo da Vinci interrupted his work many times, going in search of sitters. One day, while listening to a church choir, he saw a perfect image of Christ in one of the young singers and, inviting him to his workshop, made several sketches and studies from him.

And then, after a long search, the artist saw a man lying in a gutter - young, but prematurely decrepit, dirty, drunk and ragged. There was no longer time for sketches, and Leonardo ordered his assistants to take him straight to the cathedral. WITH with great difficulty they dragged him there and put him on his feet. The man did not really understand what was happening and where he was, but Leonardo da Vinci captured on canvas the face of a man mired in sins. When he finished his work, the beggar, who by this time had already come to his senses a little, approached the canvas and cried out:

- I've already seen this picture before!

- When? - Leonardo was surprised.

- Three years ago, before I lost everything. At that time, when I sang in the choir, and my life was full of dreams, some artist painted Christ from me...

Inventions of a genius

Leonardo da Vinci was an excellent magician (his contemporaries called him a magician). He could create a multi-colored flame from a boiling liquid by pouring wine into it; easily turned white wine into red; with one blow he broke a cane, the ends of which were placed on two glasses, without breaking either of them; applied a little of his saliva to the end of the pen - and the inscription on the paper turned black. The miracles that Leonardo showed impressed his contemporaries so much that he was seriously suspected of serving “black magic.” In addition, near the genius there were always strange, dubious personalities, like Tomaso Giovanni Masini, known under the pseudonym Zoroaster de Peretola, a good mechanic, jeweler and at the same time an adept of the secret sciences...

In 1499, Leonardo da Vinci, to meet the French king Louis XII, designed a wooden mechanical lion, which, after taking a few steps, opened its chest and showed its insides “filled with lilies.” The scientist is the inventor of a spacesuit, a submarine, a steamship, and flippers. He has a manuscript that shows the possibility of diving to great depths without a spacesuit thanks to the use of a special gas mixture (the secret of which he deliberately destroyed). To invent it, it was necessary to have a good understanding of the biochemical processes of the human body, which were completely unknown at that time!

It was he who first proposed installing batteries of firearms on armored ships (he gave the idea of a battleship!), invented a helicopter, a bicycle, a glider, a parachute, a tank, a machine gun, poisonous gases, a smoke screen for troops, a magnifying glass (100 years before Galileo!). Leonardo da Vinci invented textile machines, looms, machines for making needles, powerful cranes, swamp drainage systems using pipes, arched bridges. He created drawings of gates, levers and screws designed to lift enormous weights - mechanisms that did not exist in his time. It is amazing that Leonardo da Vinci describes these machines and mechanisms in detail, although they were impossible to make at that time due to the fact that ball bearings were not known at that time (but Leonardo himself knew this - the corresponding drawing has been preserved). Sometimes it seems that da Vinci simply wanted to learn as much as possible about this world by collecting information. Why did he need it in this form and in such quantity? He did not leave an answer to this question.

Leonardo Da Vinci painted his paintings in a mirror image and all these mythical creatures were drawn on purpose. History knows many examples when the works of scientists are hundreds, or even thousands of years ahead of their time. Medieval works contain descriptions of jet aircraft and time travel.

So, for example, there is a mention of a certain machine of the future, which was designed by Nostradamus. It is known that Nostradamus carried out his prophecies not entirely with the help of astrology, but with the help of a special machine, the secret of which he read in medieval Arabic manuscripts.

Leonadro da Vinci- some called him a genius, others a superman. Some argued that the artist practices black magic - how else can one explain that he was several centuries ahead of his time? Someone or something seemed to be dictating information to him about future events. The artist encrypted his prophecies in the form of riddles, and wrote the texts of mysterious puzzles from right to left - in a mirror image.

Scientists from all over the world have been struggling with the mystery of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting “La Gioconda” for decades. Where is her gaze directed? Everyone who finds themselves in front of the canvas, no matter what angle they stand at, assures that the Mona Lisa is looking exactly at him.

In December 2011, American scientists made an unexpected discovery. Using ordinary mirrors, they studied this and several other paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. All the artist’s canvases were united by one feature - the heroes depicted on them looked as if into emptiness. But the researchers found out that the characters’ gaze is fixed on some invisible object.

By moving mirrors across the surface of the painting, researchers looked for the key to the secret of the great artist’s paintings. Work on each painting took several months, and at the end of each experiment, scientists expected the same shocking result - a fragment of the image, reflected in the mirror, formed a mysterious figure.

The researchers couldn't believe their eyes - Mona Lisa looks not into emptiness at all, but at some mysterious creature in a mask. The same image is repeated in the famous study of John the Baptist. A strange face, whose features coincide with amazing accuracy, is encrypted in several dozen paintings by the great artist. And, if you look closely, it exactly resembles a modern description of aliens.

Leonardo da Vinci believed that a mirror was a way to hide information and in fact it was one of the first ciphers ever invented. What secret code was Da Vinci trying to convey, to whom was this message addressed, and why is the key to the solution hidden in the mirror image?

“And an ominous feathered race will fly through the air. They will attack people and animals and feed on them with great screaming. They will fill their belly with their scarlet blood...” Researchers are sure that in this allegorical way the artist spoke about the creation of aircraft. But the most important thing is that scientists were able to decipher the mysterious messages of Leonardo da Vinci quite recently; before that, his notes seemed to be nothing more than a chaotic set of letters.

The key to unraveling the artist's secret turned out to be simple, like everything ingenious - an ordinary mirror. He wrote his notes in a strange handwriting and for a long time they could not understand how it could be read, until one day someone realized that if a mirror was placed above the page of the manuscript, then in the mirror this code would be presented in the form of a completely understandable alphabet.

Mysterious predictions

Among Leonardo's prose works there are the mysterious "Predictions".

“An ominous feathered race will fly through the air; they will attack people and animals and will feed on them with a great cry. They will fill their belly with scarlet blood” - a prediction, experts believe, very similar to the creation of aerial vehicles, airplanes and helicopters.

“People will talk to each other from the most distant countries and answer each other” - what is this if not a prediction of the invention of telephone, telegraph and radio communications?

"Many will be seen rushing on large animals in a fast run to the destruction of their own lives and to a speedy death. Animals of different colors will be seen on the ground, carrying people to the destruction of their lives" - cars and all kinds of armored vehicles.

“There will be many who will move one against the other, holding a sharp iron in their hands; they will not cause each other any harm except fatigue, for as much as one bends forward, so much the other will lean back. But woe to the one who falls on the middle between them, because he will end up being cut into pieces" - two-handed saw.

“There will be many who will skin their mother, turning her skin over her, using a terrible beast for this” - agricultural machines. Another saying also applies to this: “It will be seen how they turn the earth upside down and look at the opposite hemispheres and open the holes of the most ferocious animals.”

“The skins of animals will bring people out of silence with great shouts and curses” - balls for sports games are made of leather.

But Leonardo da Vinci also has mysteries before which researchers are at a loss.

* People will walk and not move; they will speak to those who are not there, they will hear those who do not speak.

*Countless lives will be destroyed and countless holes will be made in the ground. Then most of the people who remain alive will throw away the food they had saved from their homes for free prey by birds and ground animals, without caring at all about it. People will throw away from their own homes the supplies that were intended to support their lives.

* The time of Herod will return, for innocent babies will be taken from their nurses and die from great wounds at the hands of cruel people.

* There will be many peoples who will hide themselves, their children and their supplies in the depths of dark caves, and there, in the darkness, they will feed themselves and their families for many months without any artificial or natural light.

* It will be seen how huge snakes fight with birds in the air at a tremendous height.

* Most of the male race will not be allowed to reproduce, since their testes will be taken away.

Leonardo da Vinci. Genius. Superman. Black magician

Master's Workshop

He or she?

Leonardo da Vinci, Gioconda (Giaconda), Mona Lisa

They say…
...that the great artist owes his death to the model of Mona Lisa. That many hours of grueling sessions with her exhausted the great master, since the model herself turned out to be a bio-vampire. They still talk about this today. As soon as the picture was painted, the great artist was gone.

All this could not help but mislead researchers. That is why almost all the secrets of genius remain unsolved for humanity.

Riddles without answers. Predictions and prophecies

“There will be many who will move one against the other, holding sharp iron in their hands; they will not cause each other any harm other than fatigue, for as much as one bends forward, the other will lean back. But woe to the one who falls in the middle between them, for in the end he will be cut into pieces” - two-handed saw.
“There will be many who will skin their mother, turning her skin over her, using a terrible beast for this” - agricultural machines. Another saying applies to this: “It will be seen how they turn the earth upside down and look at the opposite hemispheres and open the holes of the most ferocious animals.”
“The skins of animals will bring people out of silence with great shouts and curses” - sports balls are made of leather.
And here are predictions about possible cataclysms associated with warming: “Sea water will rise to the high peaks of the mountains, to the heavens and again fall on people’s homes. It will be seen how the largest trees of the forests will be carried by the fury of the wind from east to west.”
But Leonardo da Vinci also has mysteries before which researchers are at a loss. Maybe you can decipher them?

If you hurry, you will make people laugh

Good = Evil

Three years have passed. The Last Supper was almost completed, but Leonardo never found a suitable model for Judas. The cardinal, who was in charge of painting the cathedral, hurried the artist, demanding that the fresco be completed as soon as possible.
And then, after a long search, the artist saw a man lying in a gutter - young, but prematurely decrepit, dirty, drunk and ragged. There was no longer time for sketches, and Leonardo ordered his assistants to take him straight to the cathedral. With great difficulty they dragged him there and put him on his feet. The man did not really understand what was happening and where he was, but Leonardo da Vinci captured on canvas the face of a man mired in sins. When he finished his work, the beggar, who by this time had already come to his senses a little, approached the canvas and cried out:
- I've already seen this picture before!

- When? - Leonardo was surprised.
- Three years ago, before I lost everything. At that time, when I sang in the choir, and my life was full of dreams, some artist painted Christ from me...

Inventions of a genius

Leonardo encrypted a lot so that his ideas would be revealed gradually, as humanity “matured” to them. Scientists only last year, five centuries after the death of Leonardo da Vinci, were able to understand the design of his self-propelled cart and build it. This invention can easily be called the predecessor of the modern car.
In 1499, Leonardo da Vinci, to meet the French king Louis XII, designed a wooden mechanical lion, which, after taking a few steps, opened its chest and showed its insides “filled with lilies.” The scientist is the inventor of a spacesuit, a submarine, a steamship, and flippers. He has a manuscript that shows the possibility of diving to great depths without a spacesuit thanks to the use of a special gas mixture (the secret of which he deliberately destroyed). To invent it, it was necessary to have a good understanding of the biochemical processes of the human body, which were completely unknown at that time!

It was he who first proposed installing batteries of firearms on armored ships (he gave the idea of a battleship!), invented a helicopter, a bicycle, a glider, a parachute, a tank, a machine gun, poisonous gases, a smoke screen for troops, a magnifying glass (100 years before Galileo!). Leonardo da Vinci invented textile machines, weaving machines, machines for making needles, powerful cranes, systems for draining swamps through pipes, and arched bridges. He created drawings of gates, levers and screws designed to lift enormous weights - mechanisms that did not exist in his time. It is amazing that Leonardo da Vinci describes these machines and mechanisms in detail, although they were impossible to make at that time due to the fact that ball bearings were not known at that time (but Leonardo himself knew this - the corresponding drawing has been preserved). Sometimes it seems that da Vinci simply wanted to learn as much as possible about this world by collecting information. Why did he need it in this form and in such quantity? He did not leave an answer to this question.

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