Leonardo da Vinci: A Life - eBook

Name: Leonardo da Vinci: A Life - eBook
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 48069EB
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Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
ISBN: 9781440679278

By: Sherwin B. Nuland

Penguin Books / 2005 / ePub

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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, award-winning biographer 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 Leonardo da Vinci takes us deep into the first truly modern, empirical mind, one that was centuries ahead of its time.

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Title: Leonardo da Vinci: A Life - eBook
By: Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Penguin Books

Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 9781440679278
ISBN-13: 9781440679278
Stock No: WW48069EB

Publisher's Description

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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 Leonardo da Vinci takes us deep into the first truly modern, empirical mind, one that was centuries ahead of its time.

Author Bio

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Sherwin Nuland, M.D., is the author of bestselling nonfiction titles including How We Die, for which he won the National Book Award. He is clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history and bioethics.