Leonardo da Vinci was known to write most of his notes (of which up to 28,000 pages have survived, across various notebooks and codices) in reverse. Each letter was reversed, making the writing ...

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Are left-handers better at mirror-writing than right-handers? Recently, a reader of this blog emailed me that she was left-handed and had noticed that she was much better at mirror-writing than ...

Mirror writing, a phenomenon wherein children produce reversed letters or whole words, is both a normal phase of writing development and a focal point for understanding the interplay between ...

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Introduction: Axes -- Part I. A History of Mirror Writing: 1. Perspectives : Previous Scholarship on Mirror Writing -- 2. Foundations : The Practice of Mirror Writing -- 3. Orientations : Reversed and ...