Leonardo's Lion
Title | Leonardo's Lion PDF eBook |
Author | Steven R. Southard |
Publisher | Gypsy Shadow Publishing |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2019-10-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1619500086 |
In 1515, Leonardo da Vinci built a mechanical lion to entertain King Francis I of France and his guests. Until now, no one knows what happened to this amazing clockwork creation. Over half a century later, when a ten year old boy discovers the lion in a royal storeroom, young Chev doesn’t know he will soon embark on a strange and dangerous mission. His quest will lead him many leagues through a French countryside devastated by religious war in search of Leonardo’s greatest secrets of all, hidden mysteries that could affect the future of all humanity.
The Science of Leonardo
Title | The Science of Leonardo PDF eBook |
Author | Fritjof Capra |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2008-12-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307472922 |
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
Title | Leonardo PDF eBook |
Author | Carlo Pedretti |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520024205 |
Artist and scientist, draughtsman and inventor, these were the varied occupations of Leonardo. Carlo Pedretti concentrates on the paintings and drawings and tackles the problem of their complexity by tracing chronologically a number of the themes that run through Leonardo's work.--[book jacket].
Leonardo's Legacy
Title | Leonardo's Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | C. D. O'Malley |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1969 |
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ISBN |
Leonardo ́s Lost Robots
Title | Leonardo ́s Lost Robots PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Rosheim |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2006-06-14 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9783540284406 |
This book reinterprets Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical design work, revealing a new level of sophistication not recognized by art historians or engineers. The book reinterprets Leonardo's legacy of notes, showing that apparently unconnected fragments from dispersed manuscripts actually comprise cohesive designs for functioning automata. Using the rough sketches scattered throughout almost all of Leonardo's notebooks, the author has reconstructed Leonardo's programmable cart, which was the platform for other automata. Through a readable, lively narrative, the author explains how he reconstructed da Vinci's designs.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Title | Leonardo Da Vinci PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara O'Connor |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780876144671 |
A biography of the notable Italian Renaissance artist, scientist, and inventor.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Title | Leonardo Da Vinci PDF eBook |
Author | David Alan Brown |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300072465 |
Examines Leonardo da Vinci's beginnings as an artist and his earliest works, including the Uffizi Annunciation and the Munich Madonna and Child