Leonardo Da Vinci

The life and work of the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) have proved endlessly fascinating for generations. In Leonardo da Vinci Sherwin Nuland completes his twenty-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter architect engineer philosopher mathematician and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject's art relationships and scientific studies--as well as in a vast quantity of notes that became widely known in the twentieth century. Scholarly and passionate Nuland's <b>Leonardo da Vinci</b> takes us deep into the first truly modern empirical mind one that was centuries ahead of its time.