Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reimagined the World

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Author: Stefan Klein

ISBN-10: 0306818256

ISBN-13: 9780306818257

Category: Artists - Biography

Revered today as, perhaps, the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart. The artist who created the Mona Lisa also designed functioning robots and digital computers, constructed flying machines and built the first heart valve. His intuitive and ingenious approach—a new mode of thinking—linked highly diverse areas of inquiry in startling new ways and ushered in a new era.In Leonardo's Legacy, award-winning science journalist Stefan Klein deciphers the...

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By the international bestselling author of The Science of Happiness and The Secret Pulse of Time, a fresh exploration of Leonardo da Vinci’s real code: Science!The Washington Post - Michael SimsLeonardo da Vinci has so long been sanctified that it's easy to forget he was human. Fortunately, Stefan Klein paints a fresh portrait rather than further gilding an already blinding lily. Leonardo the artist and inventor are here, of course, but Klein devotes his most enthusiastic attention to Leonardo the naturalist…Klein's vivid journeys on Leonardo's trail help create a sense of the man behind the red chalk self-portraits…