It was Leonardo da Vinci. Many left handed scholars wrote in this fashion because if you wrote 'normally', the left hand would drag through the fresh ink and ruin the document. They started in the lower right hand of the page and wrote from...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_inventor_made_notes_in_m...
Not very common at all. I don't know the statistics, but I'm betting its pretty rare. But it is a cool party trick. :D
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090729213...
We do not think he did. His sketch books are all in mirror writing.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_people_think_Leonardo...
Here's what it says: "This is a sample of my mirror writing. Can you read it? I love to write like this in front of people because it totally freaks them out! They usually have a hard time reading it too, which makes it fun for game...
http://www.squidoo.com/mirrorwriting
i've never heard of one, but i am good at mirror writing too. i will check it out and edit this or email you if i find anything.
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090826...
I have trouble writing backwards with my right hand, but I have trouble writing forwards with my left. So I guess for me mirror-writing is easier then writing backwards.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080117123...
X-linked dominant conditions tend to present as two distinct sex-dependent phenotypes. Mirror writing ability and synaesthesia both appear to fall into this category. The existence of two different phenotypes in these two conditions is adva...
http://www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/17339083