What Would Leonardo Da Vinci Think of the Future?

On the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo, an archaeologist and curator imagines the inventor and artist teleported to our time

This red chalk drawing, circa 1515, is considered by many experts to be a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. Image: Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr

By Stephen E. Nash

He sketched prototypes for a robot, a helicopter, a tank, and a submarine centuries before they were invented…