I think this may be very well the first time i've seen the expanding earth theory thrown on the board..
Haven't seen this posted yet.
The Economist
The World In 2019
The coming year sees the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. To mark the occasion, “The World in 2019”, our annual edition that looks at the year ahead, publishes a page from a newly discovered volume of Leonardo’s journal, written a few months before his death on May 2nd 1519, that records his visit to the year 2019, as the guest of a mysterious time-traveller…
> https://www.economist.com/the-world-in/2018/11/22/leonardo-da-vinci-visits-2019
Plenty of symbolism to dig into and evaluate, as usual.