Cults, maths, sculpting and...eye tests? Episode 2 of Leonardo has it all and Dervla is back with Hope Anna to talk through it!
Is telling your new employee to carve a giant rock too much to ask? Did Leonardo DaVinci actually write his notebook backwards? Were there opticians in the 15th century (and were they as iconic as Gilberto degli Specchi?)
Come find out in this episode of Fantastico! The CBBC Leonardo podcast (Originally recorded in 2022)
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(We are nothing if not consistent)
SOURCES:
Renaissance Opticians:
https://eyewiki.org/History_of_Ophthalmology#cite_note-23
Duke-Elder S & Wybar KC (1961). The history of the anatomy of the eye. System of Ophthalmology. Vol 2. The Anatomy of the Visual System. London: Henry Kimpton 1–72.
