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The original Renaissance man. BookPage Top Pick in Nonfiction, November Walter Isaacson, who recently authored the door-stopping, New York Times bestselling biography of Steve Jobs, turns his attention to Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci in his latest book. Careful scouring of Leonardo’s notebooks, located variously in the United States, France, England and Italy, enabled Isaacson Brand: Simon & Schuster. The #1 New York Times Bestseller 'Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, he's simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable man' Books of the Year - The Times 'Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal man to the fore. For all his supernatural gifts as an artist and natural scientist. Leonardo was resolutely. Leonardo Da Vinci is my fifth book by Walter Issacson, and with Steve Jobs, by far my favourite one. I am no Leonardo specialist but after reading this book I /5(2K).
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Skip to main content. There are no products in your shopping cart. Leonardo da Vinci Hardcover. By Walter Isaacson. What secrets can he teach us?
The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve JobsEinsteinand Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry.
His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper.
So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, 9781501139154 book download pdf, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, 9781501139154 book download pdf, to think different.
Praise For… "As always, [Isaacson] writes with a strongly 9781501139154 book download pdf intelligence across a tremendous range; the result is a valuable introduction to a complex subject. Beneath its diligent research, the book is a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it. Most important, Isaacson tells a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life.
Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a 9781501139154 book download pdf writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages. Isaacson deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo. That joy bubbles forth in this magnificent book. In Isaacson, Leonardo gets the biographer he deserves—an author capable of comprehending his often frenetic, 9781501139154 book download pdf, frequently weird quest to understand.
Isaacson deserves immense praise for producing a very human portrait of a genius. Isaacson is at his finest when he analyzes what made Leonardo human. Leonardo led an astonishingly interesting eventful life.
And Isaacson brilliantly captures its essence. Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize. Totally enthralling, masterful, and passionate. This is a monumental tribute to a titanic figure.
Absorbing, enlightening and always engaging. This beautiful book, on coated stock, showing text and illustrations to the best advantage, is a pleasure to hold. He writes simply and clearly, and even though his principal character hails from antiquity, the narrative hums like a headline from the morning paper, alert to topical parallels between then and now. He uses the life he recounts in a wonderful 9781501139154 book download pdf to speculate on the source of geniuses This has to be the most beautifully illustrated and printed book I've seen in recent years.
In this copiously illustrated biography, we feel its force all over again, 9781501139154 book download pdf. Walter Isaacson wonderfully conveys how Leonardo's genius unified science and art. Sebastopol Store N.
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Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. My library. Leonardo Da Vinci is my fifth book by Walter Issacson, and with Steve Jobs, by far my favourite one. I am no Leonardo specialist but after reading this book I /5(2K). The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life Released on: October 02,
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