The Genius of Leonardo

The Genius of Leonardo
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ISBN-10 : 184148301X
ISBN-13 : 9781841483016
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Synopsis The Genius of Leonardo by : Guido Visconti

Leonardo smiled, and he explained that a person s life is just a moment in infinity. During that moment, no one can do and know all that they would like.

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
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Publisher : Dell
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780307573520
ISBN-13 : 0307573524
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by : Michael J. Gelb

This inspiring and inventive guide teaches readers how to develop their full potential by following the example of the greatest genius of all time, Leonardo da Vinci. Acclaimed author Michael J. Gelb, who has helped thousands of people expand their minds to accomplish more than they ever thought possible, shows you how. Drawing on Da Vinci's notebooks, inventions, and legendary works of art, Gelb introduces Seven Da Vincian Principles—the essential elements of genius—from curiosità, the insatiably curious approach to life to connessione, the appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things. With Da Vinci as your inspiration, you will discover an exhilarating new way of thinking. And step-by-step, through exercises and provocative lessons, you will harness the power—and awesome wonder—of your own genius, mastering such life-changing abilities as: •Problem solving •Creative thinking •Self-expression •Enjoying the world around you •Goal setting and life balance •Harmonizing body and mind Drawing on Da Vinci's notebooks, inventions, and legendary works of art, acclaimed author Michael J. Gelb, introduces seven Da Vincian principles, the essential elements of genius, from curiosita, the insatiably curious approach to life, to connessione, the appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things. With Da Vinci as their inspiration, readers will discover an exhilarating new way of thinking. Step-by-step, through exercises and provocative lessons, anyone can harness the power and awesome wonder of their own genius, mastering such life-changing skills as problem solving, creative thinking, self-expression, goal setting and life balance, and harmonizing body and mind.

Learning from Leonardo

Learning from Leonardo
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Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages : 421
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ISBN-10 : 9781609949907
ISBN-13 : 1609949900
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Learning from Leonardo by : Fritjof Capra

Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, and even musician—the archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also a profoundly modern man. Not only did Leonardo invent the empirical scientific method over a century before Galileo and Francis Bacon, but Capra's decade-long study of Leonardo's fabled notebooks reveals that he was a systems thinker centuries before the term was coined. At the very core of Leonardo's science, Capra argues, lies his persistent quest for understanding the nature of life. His science is a science of living forms, of qualities and patterns, radically different from the mechanistic science that emerged 200 years later. Because he saw the world as an integrated whole, Leonardo always applied concepts from one area to illuminate problems in another. His studies of the movement of water informed his ideas about how landscapes are shaped, how sap rises in plants, how air moves over a bird's wing, and how blood flows in the human body. His observations of nature enhanced his art, his drawings were integral to his scientific studies, and he brought art, science, and technology together in his beautiful and elegant mechanical and architectural designs. Capra describes seven defining characteristics of Leonardo da Vinci's genius and includes a list of over forty discoveries he made that weren't rediscovered until centuries later. Capra follows the organizational scheme Leonardo himself intended to use if he ever published his notebooks. So in a sense, this is Leonardo's science as he himself would have presented it. Obviously, we can't all be geniuses on the scale of Leonardo da Vinci. But his persistent endeavor to put life at the very center of his art, science, and design and his recognition that all natural phenomena are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent are important lessons we can learn from. By exploring the mind of the preeminent Renaissance genius, we can gain profound insights into how to address the complex challenges of the 21st century.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9780300072464
ISBN-13 : 0300072465
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Leonardo Da Vinci by : David Alan Brown

Examines Leonardo da Vinci's beginnings as an artist and his earliest works, including the Uffizi Annunciation and the Munich Madonna and Child

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci
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Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages : 124
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ISBN-10 : 0876144679
ISBN-13 : 9780876144671
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Leonardo Da Vinci by : Barbara O'Connor

A biography of the notable Italian Renaissance artist, scientist, and inventor.

Leonardo

Leonardo
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9781509518555
ISBN-13 : 150951855X
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Leonardo by : Antonio Forcellino

A visionary scientist, a supreme painter, a man of eccentricity and ambition: Leonardo da Vinci had many lives. Born from a fleeting affair between a country girl and a young notary, Leonardo was never legitimized by his father and received no formal education. While this freedom from the routine of rigid and codified learning may have served to stimulate his natural creativity, it also caused many years of suffering and an insatiable need to prove his own worth. It was a striving for glory and an obsessive thirst for knowledge that prompted Leonardo to seek the protection and favour of the most powerful figures of his day, from Lorenzo de’ Medici to Ludovico Sforza, from the French governors of Milan to the pope in Rome, where he could vie for renown with Michelangelo and Raphael. In this revelatory account, Antonio Forcellino draws on his expertise – both as historian and as restorer of some of the world’s greatest works of art – to give us a more detailed view of Leonardo than ever before. Through careful analyses of his paintings and compositional technique, down to the very materials used, Forcellino offers fresh insights into Leonardo’s artistic and intellectual development. He spans the great breadth of Leonardo’s genius, discussing his contributions to mechanics, optics, anatomy, geology and metallurgy, as well as providing acute psychological observations about the political dynamics and social contexts in which Leonardo worked. Forcellino sheds new light on a life all too often overshadowed and obscured by myth, providing us with a fresh perspective on the personality and motivations of one of the greatest geniuses of Western culture.

The Science of Leonardo

The Science of Leonardo
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780307472922
ISBN-13 : 0307472922
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Science of Leonardo by : Fritjof Capra

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.” From the Trade Paperback edition.

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci
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Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1419740679
ISBN-13 : 9781419740671
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Leonardo da Vinci by : Pietro C. Marani

Offers a portrait of the artist, covering his life, creative process, and his art, presented in more than 295 illustrations that span the length and breadth of his career.

World History Biographies: Leonardo Da Vinci

World History Biographies: Leonardo Da Vinci
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 1426302487
ISBN-13 : 9781426302480
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis World History Biographies: Leonardo Da Vinci by : John Phillips

Examines the life and accomplishment of Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo's Brain

Leonardo's Brain
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9781493015573
ISBN-13 : 1493015575
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Leonardo's Brain by : Leonard Shlain

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different areas as da Vinci and he peels back the layers to explore the how and the why. Shlain asserts that Leonardo’s genius came from a unique creative ability that allowed him to understand and excel in a wide range of fields. From here Shlain jumps off and discusses the history of and current research on human creativity that involves different modes of thinking and neuroscience .The author also boldly speculates on whether or not the qualities of Leonardo’s brain and his creativity presage the future evolution of the human species. Leonardo’s Brain uses da Vinci as a starting point for an exploration of human creativity. With his lucid style, and his remarkable ability to discern connections in a wide range of fields, Shlain brings the reader into the world of history’s greatest mind. .