# Forgotten Sketches By Leonardo Da Vinci Suggest That He Understood Gravity Decades Before Newton

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- Published: 2023-02-17T09:45:57-06:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image caption: A portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, the famous 15th and 16th-century inventor and artist. Image credit: FierceAbin / Getty Images. Article by Amber Breese. All That’s Interesting –  updated February 16, 2023. A new study examining some of Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches in the Codex Arundel reveals the artist calculated the earth’s gravitational constant at a 97% accuracy rate. In 2017, California Institute of Technology professor Mory Gharib was searching the Codex Arundel, a collection of notes and sketches by Leonardo da Vinci dating from 1480 to 1518, for illustrations that he could share with his graduate students when he noticed a particularly intriguing sketch. […] Click here to view original web page at allthatsinteresting.com Related articles: How Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks Transcend Time – The⋅Collector 12 Best Leonardo da Vinci Inventions – Grunge Da Vinci’s Forgotten Experiments Nearly Decoded Gravity Centuries Ago – CNET