A ormai quasi cinquecento anni dalla sua morte, la fama di Leonardo da Vinci è dovuta, oltre che alla bellezza insuperata dei suoi capolavori artistici, anche alla sua levatura come scienziato e inventore. Michael White, famoso giornalista scientifico inglese famoso per le biografie di personaggi quali Newton, Tolkien e Machiavelli, in questo libro examine with painstaking attention to Leonardo's life and at the same performs a thorough review of its importance as an artist, as a scholar and as an insatiable intellectual of vast interests. "Leonardo - The first scientist" part as a classic biography, essay evolves into one of the major revolutionaries of knowledge, and finally becomes exciting adventure of thought through the story of a participant except in the decades of life unique in the Italian Renaissance, one work that White moves freely through various levels, and that while talking about art, science and history with intellectual depth can keep vivid and vital interest and curiosity in the reader.
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