1.
Forbes magazine lists Obama most powerful
Friday, November 13
ROME, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Researchers say an early guide to playing the game of chess might have been illustrated by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo was a close friend of Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar Luca Pacioli, who wrote "De ludo scacchorum." The chess manual was found in a private library last year.
The manuscript, produced about 1500, contains 48 pages of diagrams, each representing a possible chess scenario to which Pacioli offered his solutions, the BBC reported.
Researchers say they have asked experts in the United States to determine if the drawings are, in fact, Leonardo's work, the British network said.
| Additional News Stories | |
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13 (UPI) --
U.S. actress Katherine Heigl is to take a break from taping "Grey's Anatomy" to spend more time with the baby girl she and her husband recently adopted.
|
|
|
|