About this title: This selection reveals a true Renaissance man, whose habit of rigorous enquiry, observation, and experiment, grounded in a philosophic system, led him to conceive of the universe as an organized cosmos corresponding to a work of art.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780192838971ISBN:0192838970
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. page corner folds, used book sticker on rear cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 432 p. Contains: Illustrations. Oxford World's Classics (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6"-8" Tall. Early printing red cloth hard cover with dust jacket, VG/VG. No. 156. Clean, tight and unmarked copy, very slightly rubbed at corners. Dust jacket rubbed at corners and mildly shelf-soiled. New mylar cover. 455pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Braziller, NY
Date Published: 1958
Description: B&w Illus. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8 vo. Reprint of the 1939 edition; dj w/lite wear, unclipped price; 1247 clean, unmarked pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock, New York
Date Published: 1938
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Very good, clean, unmarked copy of Vol. 2 of this set. Some evidence of bookplate removal. Volume 2 of 2 v. set, fronts. (ports. ) plates, plans, facsims. 26 cm. "Printed in Great Britain. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock, New York
Date Published: 1938
Description: Fine. No dust jacket. no date [1930s? ]-2 Volume set-Spines are solid (uncreased)-burgundy cloth covers are clean w/light color fade; gilt lettering difficult to read-all pages are tight and unmarked-illustrated-a beautiful vintage set in excellent... 2 v. fronts. (ports. ) plates, plans, facsims. 26 cm. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780192838971ISBN:0192838970
Description: Good. A good reading copy in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if available). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels. All items will be shipped by the close of the next business day. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Braziller, New York
Date Published: 1955
Description: Fair/Good. . Hardcover, fair condition, w. ltly slanted, v. ltly compressed sp, ltly bumped bottom corner--fr corner ltly frayed. Smwht sunned/tanned p. edges. Ltly tanned eps, pp. Fr ins hinge split. O/w clean and unmarked. Dj g., ltly rubbed, lt marks and spots. Smwht tanned sp, sme lt sunning at r sp. A few sm tears, sme chipping at sp top. Sme lt tanning ins. read more
"Step into the mind of a true genius! This book is filled with Leonardo's insightful thoughts and interpretations about a wide variety of topics such as: the elements, flight, art, and even some short tales. It contains a small biography of Leonardo giving the reader a good sense of setting. It also organizes Leonardo's notebooks into basic and easy to follow categories, allowing the reader to pick and choose what interests them the most. This makes the book a joy to read. It does not have to be read front to back; the reader is able to skip around and read what they feel like at that moment. On the downside there are a few minor details that damper its enjoyment. The first is the enormous amount of references to manuscripts. In the reading they have annotations which point to the back where the manuscripts are listed, but this creates confusion while reading, since many of the references are not well known. The other downside is the lack of illustrations. Even though there are a couple integrated into the writing, Leonardo was known for his many sketches, and the lack of these leaves the reader with a sense of emptiness for Leonardo's thoughts. Overall this book is a well organized piece of Leonardo Da Vinci's deepest thoughts, allowing the reader to dive into the mind of a mastermind."
""Force arises from dearth or abundance; it is the child of physical motion, and the grandchild of spiritual motion, and the mother and origin of gravity." 186
"Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past. Prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly." 252
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience." 288
"Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." 302
"No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril." 302"
"One of the defining periods of my life was when I read Leonardo's notebooks. His awareness, curiosity, and maddening drive towards perfection of his understanding of reality is beautiful.
You really get a grasp of his personality from the notebooks. He suffered greatly from the thought that he'd die before I got it all figured out."
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