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Secrets of the Dead
Leonardo, The Man Who Saved Science
Season 16
Episode 4
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks — some even 1,700 years before. Was Leonardo a copycat?
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