The ability to write backwards in the form of mirror writing is probably inherited, Australian research suggests. And the trait is likely to be associated with atypical language organisation in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...