Leonardo da Vinci

For more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating Everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-th...

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Main Author: Krull, Kathleen.
Other Authors: Kulikov, Boris, 1966- (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Viking, 2005.
Series: Giants of science
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Table of Contents:
  • So many things unknown!
  • The outsider
  • The desire to know is natural
  • Nothing but full privies
  • Lying on a feather mattress
  • The universe stands open
  • Citizen of the world
  • The fabulous notebooks
  • The fabulous notebooks, part 2
  • I have wasted my hours
  • I will continue
  • What happened next?
  • Leonardo's notebooks and where they are now.