The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux

• Author : Francis C. Moon
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 29 October 2007

This fascinating book will be of as much interest to engineers as to art historians, examining as it does the evolution of machine design methodology from the Renaissance to the Age of Machines in the 19th century. It provides detailed analysis, comparing design concepts of engineers of the 15th century Renaissance and the 19th century age of machines from a workshop tradition to the rational scientific discipline used today.

• Author : Kathleen Krull
• Publisher : Viking Adult
• Release : 20 June 2021

Explores the scientific studies, experiments, and observations of this world-renowned artist and scientist of the fifteenth century through a review of the writings, notes, and sketches left behind in his vast collection of notebooks.

• Author : Leonardo da Vinci
• Publisher : Library of Alexandria
• Release : 20 June 2021

• Author : Janis Herbert
• Publisher : Chicago Review Press
• Release : 01 October 1998

The marriage of art and science is celebrated in this beautifully illustrated four-color biography and activity book. Kids will begin to understand the important discoveries that da Vinci made through inspiring activities like determining the launch angle of a catapult, sketching birds and other animals, creating a map, learning to look at a painting, and much more. Includes a glossary, bibliography, listing of pertinent museums and Web sites, a timeline, and many interesting sidebars.

• Author : Charles Nicholl
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 07 April 2005

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all the manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an 'intimate portrait' of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical

• Author : Walter Isaacson
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 17 October 2017

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in

• Author : Frank Zöllner
• Publisher : Taschen
• Release : 20 June 2021

Life and work of the renowned painter, scientist, and philosopher of the Renaissance period.

• Author : Roberta Edwards
• Publisher : Penguin Workshop
• Release : 20 June 2021

"Presents the life and accomplishments of the famous artist, scientist, engineer, and inventor."--Amazon.com.

• Author : Giorgio Vasari,Matteo Bandello,Paolo Giovio,Leonardo da Vinci,Sabba di Castiglione
• Publisher : Getty Publications
• Release : 29 October 2019

A new title in the successful Lives of the Artists series, which offers illuminating, and often intimate, accounts of iconic artists as viewed by their contemporaries. Coinciding with the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo (1452–1519), Lives of Leonardo da Vinci brings together important early biographies of the polymath by Giorgio Vasari, Paolo Giovio, and anonymous authors. This illustrated volume also features recollections by the humanist scholar Sabba di Castiglione; Matteo Bandello’s eyewitness account of the artist creating

• Author : Diego Agrimbau,Diego Aballay
• Publisher : Capstone
• Release : 01 August 2018

Born in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci is still, today, considered one of the most talent people to have ever lived. From his world famous paintings and drawings, such as the Mona Lisa and the Vitruvian Man, to his ingenious inventions of the parachute, the helicopter, and the military tank, da Vince was always a step ahead of his time. Discover the origins of a man who refused to be defined by just one vocation. Whether science and engineering or architecture and

• Author : Brad Meltzer
• Publisher : Dial Books
• Release : 20 June 2021

The famous Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci is the twentieth hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of an icon in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. At the

• Author : Michael Gelb
• Publisher : Dell
• Release : 20 June 2021

Identifies seven basic elements of Leonardo da Vinci's way of thinking and learning and shows readers how to use them to enrich their personal and professional lives through a wealth of exercises, illustrations, and material from da Vinci's notebooks. Reissue.

• Author : Alessandro Vezzosi
• Publisher : Thames & Hudson
• Release : 20 June 1997

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance and of all time.

• Author : Kenneth D. Keele
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 10 May 2014

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Elements of the Science of Man describes how Da Vinci integrates his mechanical observations and experiments in mechanics into underlying principles. This book is composed of 17 chapters that highlight the principles underlying Da Vinci’s research in anatomical studies. Considerable chapters deal with Leonardo’s scientific methods and the mathematics of his pyramidal law, as well as his observations on the human and animal movements. Other chapters describe the artist’s anatomical approach to the mechanism

• Author : Leonardo da Vinci,
• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• Release : 17 April 2008

This selection offers a cross-section from the 6,000 surviving sheets that constitute Leonardo's notebooks, including his thoughts on landscape, optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Leonardo expert Martin Kemp.