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Notebooks
Leonardo da Vinci
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Description for Notebooks
Paperback. 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. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages, c. 70 black and white line illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 326.
'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.' Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. In them he recorded everything that interested him in the world around him, and his study of how things work. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity he studied the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature ... Read more
'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.' Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. In them he recorded everything that interested him in the world around him, and his study of how things work. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity he studied the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199299027
SKU
V9780199299027
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About Leonardo da Vinci
Irma A. Richter was an artist, translator, and Leonardo scholar. Thereza Wells is Head of Scientific Analysis at Universal Leonardo. Martin Kemp is University Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford (Trinity College) and the author of The Oxford History of Western Art and Leonardo.
Reviews for Notebooks
A remarkable insight into the Renaissance mind.
The Guardian.
The Guardian.