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Was this some form of dyslexia (or more correctly, dysgraphia), do you know?
As another person noted, it's a good chance he wrote as he did to hid his ideas and inventions. On top of that, though, is the fact that he studied things that were outlaw at the time. Like cutting up cadavers to gain anatomical knowledge (he had to sneak them into his place for study). The favor of nobles isn't enough if you're crossing the current day boundries of taste, religion and law.
From studying him, I can just imagine how lonely a person he was, being unable to express what he understood about science, engineering, biology, etc.
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I marvel that he was actually able to do this readily. But since the pages could have been read using a mirror, it does not seem worth the trouble.Have you ever actually tried it? I find it quite easy. Start with printing, not writing, although writing is possible. I'm not too fast at it but I haven't exactly worked at it. And I'm right-handed, just for the record. It was something I wanted to try! 
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Backward block printing may be easy, but backward cursive would be accursedly difficult.
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backward cursive would be accursedly difficult.Okay, I see the pun, but honestly, backward cursive is not too bad. You just have to force yourself to remember how they originally taught you to form cursive letters. Break it down into a few strokes, in a certain order, per letter, just like in elementary school. It does speed up after a while. Impossible to demonstrate online!
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In reply to:
I can just imagine how lonely a person he was
You've got that right, Seian. He must have had an IQ in the stratosphere, along with the inquiring disposition to go with it. You would have to be lonely if there is no other person in the world with whom you could have a conversation on anything approaching intellectual parity.
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