by Leonardo da Vinci · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192815385
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«The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci» is a selection of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks published by Oxford University Press in paperback (432 pages).
This selection of Leonardo da Vinci's notes gathers reflections and opinions on topics as varied as art, philosophy, science, and domestic life. Leonardo's writings reveal a habit of research, observation, and experimentation, along with a vision of the universe as an organized cosmos that corresponds to a work of art.
Part of the World's Classics series, selected and edited by Irma A. Richter; 1980 edition, in English.
Aimed at readers interested in the Renaissance, art history, and science.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded as a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works contributed to the development of European art to an extent rivalled only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo.
