The Science of Leonardo Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
by Capra, Fritjof
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385513909
- ISBN 13
- 9780385513906
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385513909 . Only defect is a short closed tear top front panel of dustjacket ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 9.2 X 6.2 X 1.2 inches; 329 pages; "Leonardo da Vincis 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 Leonardos 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 naturewhat is now known as the scientific method. Leonardo's scientific explorations were extraordinarily wide-ranging. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines. Using his understanding of weights and levers and trajectories and forces, he designed military weapons and defenses, and was in fact regarded as one of the foremost military engineers of his era. He studied optics, the nature of light, and the workings of the human heart and circulatory system. Because of his vast knowledge of hydraulics, he was hired to create designs for rebuilding the infrastructure of Milan and the plain of Lombardy, employing the very principles still used by city planners today. He was a mechanical genius, and yet his worldview was not mechanistic but organic and ecological. This is why, in Capra's view, Leonardo's sciencecenturies ahead of his time in a host of fieldsis eminently relevant to our time. Enhanced with fifty beautiful sepia-toned illustrations" .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20064
- Title
- The Science of Leonardo Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
- Author
- Capra, Fritjof
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385513909
- ISBN 13
- 9780385513906
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 0385513909, renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- SCIENCE;
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