Science of Leonardo Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance

Name: Science of Leonardo Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
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ISBN: 9781400078837

ISBN-10: 1400078830

ISBN-13: 9781400078837

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Authors: Fritjof Capra

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Leonardo da Vinci’s pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Now acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals that Leonardo was in many ways the unacknowledged “father of modern science.” Drawing on an examination of over 6,000 pages of Leonardo’s surviving notebooks, Capra explains that Leonardo approached scientific knowledge with the eyes of an artist. Through his studies of living and nonliving forms, from architecture and human anatomy to the turbulence of water and the growth patterns of grasses, he pioneered the empirical, systematic approach to the observation of nature—what is now known as the scientific method. Leonardo's…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.24" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Fritjof Capra, PhD, physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy. Capra is on the faculty of Schumacher College in England and frequently gives management seminars for top executives. He is the author of several international bestsellers, including The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, The Web of Life, The Hidden Connections, and The Science of Leonardo.



Acknowledgments


Photographic Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction: An Interpreter of Nature



Leonardo, the Man



Infinite Grace



The Universal Man



The Florentine



A Well-Employed Life



Leonardo, the Scientist



Science in the Renaissance



Science Born of Experience



Geometry Done with Motion



Pyramids of Light



The Eye, the Senses, and the Soul


Epilogue: "Read me, O reader, if in my words you find delight"



Leonardo's Geometry of Transformations


Notes


Leonardo's Notebooks: Facsimiles and Transcriptions


Bibliography


Index