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The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance

The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance - Paperback

by Fritjof Capra
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Availability:In StockContributor:Fritjof CapraPublish date:2008-12-02Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400078837ISBN-10:1400078830UPC:9781400078837Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Artists, Architects, Photographers, EuropeBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCYV3G7K9J
Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines; designed military weapons and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the workings of the human circulatory system; and created designs for rebuilding Milan, employing principles still used by city planners today. Perhaps most importantly, Leonardo pioneered an empirical, systematic approach to the observation of nature-what is known today as the scientific method.Drawing on over 6,000 pages of Leonardo's surviving notebooks, acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals Leonardo's artistic approach to scientific knowledge and his organic and ecological worldview. In this fascinating portrait of a thinker centuries ahead of his time, Leonardo singularly emerges as the unacknowledged "father of modern science."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400078837ISBN-10:1400078830UPC:9781400078837Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Artists, Architects, Photographers, EuropeBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCYV3G7K9J
Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, which promotes ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education. Dr. Capra is the author of four international bestsellers, The Tao of Physics (1975), The Turning Point (1982), Uncommon Wisdom (1988), and The Web of Life (1996). His most recent book, The Hidden Connections, was published in 2002.Capra has been the focus of over 50 television interviews, documentaries, and talk shows in Europe, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and Japan, and has been featured in major international magazines and newspapers. He was the first subject of the BBC's new documentary series "Beautiful Minds" (2002).
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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