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"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills...
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Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Leonardo da Vinci defies categorization. He was an artist, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and more. He truly was a Renaissance man. This comprehensive volume presents the biography of a remarkable man using his own words and works. Readers will come to appreciate the genius of the inventor who devised early airplanes and helicopters more than 300 years before flying machines would be successfully developed! His paintings, sculptures, blueprints,...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2005
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124 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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For more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating Everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect human corpses, so he did autopsies in secret, even devising a clever...
8) Signor Marconi's magic box: how an amateur inventor defied scientists and began the radio revolution
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xvii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm
Language
English
12) Galileo
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 508 p. [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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English
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Distributed by Questar Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Biography of the versatile Renaissance artist in the context of his times, describing some of his achievements in painting, architecture, engineering, sculpture, and science.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
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x, 400 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
Examines the life of the Florentine intellectual, his relationships with contemporaries ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to Cesare Borgia and Pope Alexander VI, his philosophies about power, and the legacy of The Prince.
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[Booksurge]
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
vi, 477 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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From the end of the Victorian Era to the First World War, Marconi would take center stage as he perfected the science of sending signals over longer and longer distances. As a result of Marconi's first "electrical" triumph at the age of twenty-one, he gained ever-increasing attention from powerful interests, including governments, who sought to obtain the keys to the new science from him. Marconi, the "father of radio and radar" would create an industry...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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xv, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"A biography of the great astronomer and scientist, and an examination of the faith vs. science question, then and now, written by a noted astrophysicist and author"--
At present, we face enormous crises, such as the minimization of the dangers of climate change because the science behind these threats is erroneously questioned or ignored. Galileo encountered this problem 400 years ago. His discoveries contradicted the teachings of the church at...
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Editora Inrínseca Ltda
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
634 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
Portuguese
Description
"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The [bestselling biographer] brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Drawing on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity,...
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English
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Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.
In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the skies to map the heavens. In doing so, he offered objective evidence...
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
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