Jonesy and da Vinci

Jones was our waitress last night. She took our orders for our Wednesday night Taco Bell supper. I took the folder she wrote on and glanced to see the order. This is what I saw:
If you would like to experiment, click on the picture, print it and then hold it up to a mirror and you will be able to read this order.



I took the below article from http://www.mos.org/sln/leonardo/leonardorighttoleft.html about Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo wrote in Italian using a special kind of shorthand that he invented himself. People who study his notebooks have long been puzzled by something else, however. He usually used "mirror writing", starting at the right side of the page and moving to the left. Only when he was writing something intended for other people did he write in the normal direction.

Here is a sample of Leonardo's writing as it appears in his drawings.
This is how it would look reversed by a mirror.
	Try it yourself!

People who were contemporaries of Leonardo left records that they saw him write and paint left handed. He also made sketches showing his own left hand at work. Being a lefty was highly unusual in Leonardo's time. Because people were superstitious, children who naturally started using their left hands to write and draw were forced to use their right hands.

No one knows the true reason Leonardo used mirror writing, though several possibilities have been suggested:

• He was trying to make it harder for people to read his notes and steal his ideas.
  
• He was hiding his scientific ideas from the powerful Roman Catholic Church, whose teachings sometimes disagreed with what Leonardo observed.
  
• Writing left handed from left to right was messy because the ink just put down would smear as his hand moved across it. Leonardo chose to write in reverse because it prevented smudging.