Leonardo's Brain

Understanding Da Vinci’s Creative GeniusThe life and art of history’s most influential mindBestselling author Leonard Shlain explores the potential for humankind through the life art and mind of the first true Renaissance Man Leonardo da Vinci. His innovations as an artist scientist and inventor are recast through a modern lens with Shlain applying contemporary neuroscience to illuminate da Vinci’s creative process. No other person in human history has excelled in so many areas of innovation: Shlain reveals the how and the why.Shlain theorizes that Leonardo’s extraordinary mind came from a uniquely developed and integrated right and left brain which offers a model for how we too can evolve. Using past and current research Leonardo’s Brain presents da Vinci as the focal point for a fresh exploration of human creativity. With his lucid style and remarkable ability to discern connections among a wide range of fields Shlain brings the reader into the world of history’s greatest mind.Leonard Shlain is a bestselling author inventor and surgeon. Admired among artists scientists philosophers anthropologists and educators he authored three bestselling books. He delivered stunning visual presentations based upon his books in venues around the world including Harvard the New York Museum of Modern Art CERN Los Alamos the Florence Academy of Art and the European Council of Ministers. Shlain died in May 2009 at the age of 71 from brain cancer shortly after the completion of this book. Visit LeonardShlain.com and LeonardosBrain.com.