The award-winning and bestselling collection of the exquisite, annotated notebooks of Leonardo now in paperback. Culled from more than 7,000 pages of sketches and writings found in various rare books, papers, and other resources throughout the world, Leonardo's Notebooks presents, for the first time, an exhaustive collection of the insights and brilliance of perhaps the finest mind the world has ever known.

H. Anna Suh selected the most fascinating of these studies, penned in the mid-15th century, and compiled them into one monumental volume that showcases Leonardo's observations and clearly illustrates them with more than 1,000 of his original sketches and exquisite line drawings. These elegant studies are of myriad topics, such as the nature of water, light and shade, perspective, philosophy, botany, astronomy, the proportions of the human figure, and many other subjects. The artwork has been carefully arranged with the text to augment and illuminate Leonardo's writings. In addition, his handwritten notes and fascinating marginalia are deciphered and translated.


Author: Leonardo da Vinci
Paperback: 336 pages
Company: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (2009-10-01)
ISBN: 1579128173
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Famous in his time as a painter, prankster, and philosopher, Leonardo da Vinci was also a musician, sculptor, and engineer for dukes, popes, and kings. What remains of his work-from futuristic designs and scientific inquiry to artwork of ethereal beauty-reveals the ambitious, unpredictable brilliance of a visionary, and a timeless dreamer.

Robert Byrd celebrates this passionate, playful genius in a glowing picture book replete with the richness and imagination of Leonardo's own notebooks. Twenty lavish spreads, including side drawings, supplemental texts, and quotes from Leonardo's writings, highlight distinct periods and make the master's art, jokes, explorations, and inventions wonderfully vivid and accessible. A striking tribute to an irrepressible mind and to the potential within all who are curious.

Author: Robert Byrd
Hardcover: 40 pages
Company: Dutton Children's Books (2003-07-28) (2003-07-28)
ISBN: 0525470336
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As the success of blockbusters like The Da Vinci Code shows, the incomparable and enigmatic Leonardo da Vinci continues to captivate. In this widely acclaimed biography, Charles Nicholl uncovers the man behind the myth of the "Renaissance master." Painter, sculptor, inventor, draftsman, anatomist—Leonardo’s life and career encompassed so many of the creative achievements that made his era spectacular. Nicholl skillfully captures it all while tracing his subject’s journey from an illegitimate child in Tuscany to his service with some of the most powerful families of Renaissance Europe. Rich with historical background, packed with black-and-white and color illustrations, and utterly engaging, this is the definitive look at a figure whose genius reaches out to us through the centuries.

Author: Charles Nicholl
Paperback: 622 pages
Company: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2005-11-29) (2005-11-29)
ISBN: 0143036122
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Author: Jaspre Bark
Hardcover: 12 pages
Company: Silver Dolphin Books (2009-04-07)
ISBN: 1592239080
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Author: Serge Bramly, Leonardo Da Vinci
Paperback: 493 pages Illustrated
Company: Penguin (Non-Classics) (1995-03-01) (1995-03-01)
ISBN: 0140231757
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The life and work of the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452– 1519) have proved endlessly fascinating for generations. In Leonardo da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his twenty-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo’s insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject’s art, relationships, and scientific studies—as well as in a vast quantity of notes that became widely known in the twentieth century. Scholarly and passionate, Nuland’s Leonardo da Vinci takes us deep into the first truly modern, empirical mind, one that was centuries ahead of its time.

Author: Sherwin Nuland
Paperback: 176 pages
Company: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2004-12-28) (2005-01-04)
ISBN: 014303510X
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Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines; designed military weapons and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the workings of the human circulatory system; and created designs for rebuilding Milan, employing principles still used by city planners today. Perhaps most importantly, Leonardo pioneered an empirical, systematic approach to the observation of nature-what is known today as the scientific method.Drawing on over 6,000 pages of Leonardo's surviving notebooks, acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals Leonardo's artistic approach to scientific knowledge and his organic and ecological worldview. In this fascinating portrait of a thinker centuries ahead of his time, Leonardo singularly emerges as the unacknowledged “father of modern science.”

Author: Fritjof Capra
Paperback: 352 pages
Company: Anchor (2008-12-02) (2008-12-02)
ISBN: 1400078830
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Author: Roberta Edwards
Paperback: 112 pages ISBN13: 9780448443010, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Company: Grosset & Dunlap (2005-09-08) (2005-09-08)
ISBN: 0448443015
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This is a personally compelling introduction to Leonardo's genius, a classic monograph of Leonardo's art and his development.

Author: Kenneth Clark, Martin Kemp
Paperback: 274 pages
Company: Penguin (1989-08-01) (1989-08-01)
ISBN: 0140169822
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"This work is an attractive and friendly resource for students... The strengths of this biography are its attractive illustrations, the time line of Da Vinci’s life across the bottom of each page, and the simple presentation of the facts of his life. Young readers will find the book visually appealing, and those searching for factual information on Da Vinci will find it helpful..." —VOYA

Author: John Phillips
Paperback: 64 pages
Company: National Geographic Children's Books (2008-05-13) (2008-05-13)
ISBN: 1426302487
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