Prison Break/Medieval Italy

O and I have been spending a lot of time lately catching up on episodes of Prison Break, and in a recent one we watched, the main character mentioned Hooke's Law of Elasticity. Then last night I was reading my book about the dome of the Florence cathedral, and Hooke was mentioned, not really in an engineering sense, but in talking about how scientists and inventors in those times would use different means of disguising their notes, like how da Vinci would write in mirrored letters. Hooke turned his law into a Latin phrase, which he then turned into an anagram to protect the idea from others. Actually, it's sort of similar to the various ways Michael disguised parts of the escape plan in his tattoo, sometimes using a mnemonic device or using a Latin phrase that only meant something to him, etc.

Anyway, then further down the same page in my book, the Italian mathmatician, Fibonacci, was mentioned, and in Prison Break there is a character named Fibonacci. It was just a bit weird, those two things on the same page when it wasn't really talking about engineering.