Finished the book.
Some handpicked inaccuracies, along with links I looked up
The Templar Knights were established in 1119. There was no such thing as the Priory of Sion during the crusades. The Priory was invented by Plantard in the 1950s - registered in France as a social club.
The genealogies supporting the Jesus Bloodline "discovered" at the Bibliotheque National in Paris (Dan Brown even goes ahead and lies about the catalogue number, to lend credibility to his lies, Number 4 1m1 249). A visit to the Bibliotheque, or an online search of its database reveals no such dossiers exist. Which means that the list of Grandmasters was conjured entirely by Dan Brown. Nicolas Flamel, Isaac Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci were all never a part of a goddess worshipping cult known as the priory of sion.
Da vinci was not a flamboyant Homosexual. He was accused of Sodomy once, but the charges were withdrawn. Dan Brown stretches everything just a little bit too much, and fabricates claiming he does not do it at all, to make the web of cross connections in his novel.
Vitruvius, an architect of the Roman empire, tried to create a picture of a perfect human being, using the Divine proportion. He said that a figure drawn in a square, within a circle, with the centers of both the circle and the square at the belly button of the man. doing this gave rise to bizarre distortions in the human figure, huge limbs, and huge dicks.
Check this link out to see: click here
Da Vinci just adjusted the geometry to suit his figure, so the man is in a circle and a square, but they are not centered. Therefore, all the symbolism about pentacles and perfect symmetry and proportion, all evaporate.
The Virgin of the rocks is NOT referred to as the Madonna of the Rocks, the curator of the Louvre would undoubtedly know this... so the anagram "so dark the con of man" is just nonsense.
Da Vinci never invented the cryptex... although he had many other weird inventions to his name. The cryptex is a fabrication of Dan Brown's, which does not even work. We believe basic things about his novels... like vinegar destroys papyrus. It does not. Sophie and Langdon could have smashed the rosewood cryptex apart... and nothing would have happened.
John the baptist is often depicted with feminine characters. A more probably explanation of the feminine appearance of the figure sitting next to Jesus in the last supper, would be that he simply looked like a her, rather than the Draconian Devil's devious way of showing the actual nature of the grail. here is , a picture of John looking pretty feminine.
Read more about the stupid interpretation in the code about the last supper here: http://www.irr.org/da-vinci-code.html#Part%202
The argument according to the code was that there was a debate in the third century if Jesus was God or Mortal. Actually, the debate was between to factions, one claiming Jesus to be the son of God, the other claiming that God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost always existed as the holy trinity. The code says hat when the matter was put to vote, there was a "relatively close" outcome. Dan Brown's definition of relatively close is 218 to 2.
Newton died on March 20, 1727, and was buried on March 28. Alexander Pope was not there to deliver the eulogy Dan Brown has attributed to him, and was an integral part of the plot. Instead, much later, there was just an epitaph by him, "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night/ God said, ":et Newton be!" and all was light."
Yeah, an epitaph is almost a burial (like water is almost coffee), so the facts were not bent too much.
Note: JC Squire's later riposte: 'It did not last, the Devil howling 'Ho! / Let Einstein Be!' restored the status quo.
There are other inaccuracies, like Isis was never referred to as l'isa, something invented by Dan Brown. Anagrams were never referred to as the Ars Magna (which is just an anagram of the word anagram). There are various geographic inaccuracies in the locations. Symbology is not even a science, there are no symbologists like Langdon in the real world. Sophie cannot be a cryptographer, as that is not a profession, the word is cryptanalyst.
Aringrossa means "Red Herring". This was something I found pretty cool. Fits in nicely in the plot.
Another deconstruction
http://www.xenos.org/essays/deconstruct_davinci.htm
A bunch of deconstructions
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/d50aad.html
Study everything around the code (historically accurate)
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/davincicode/contents-schedule.html
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