The #1 New York Times bestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it." --The New Yorker "Vigorous, insightful." --The Washington Post "A masterpiece." --San Francisco Chronicle "Luminous." --The Daily Beast He was histo[...]

Presents a biography of this prolific artist and inventor through projects in cartography, animal art, bird observation, and mask making.[...]

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the most extraordinary thinkers in history, sketched and wrote about many innovative machines that were hundreds of years ahead of their time but were never built during his lifetime. Now, in this remarkable book, readers are presented with five of his most famous invention[...]

The fertile mind of Leonardo da Vinci gave so much to the world; he was an artist, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist cartographer and more. He drew sketches and plans of many objects that would not be practically assembled for many centuries after his death, and his scientific approach to res[...]

A fun introduction to one of historys most brilliant minds, this title is the first biography within the Ivy Kids 30 Seconds series. Children will learn about the life of the original Renaissance man, and will discover how da Vincis influence, from his masterpiece paintings to his innovative inventi[...]

Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance Man, an artist, mathematician, inventor and writer amongst his many talents. His skilfull observations of the mechanics of the body informed both his work, and the generations that followed. But his drawings are elegant too, with the gentle features of [...]

This carefully edited collection of Leonardo da Vinci's original notebooks provides a representative selection of his genius and shows how he recorded his thoughts on a variety of topics. Selections from his work on anatomy, on the flight of birds, warfare, and of course, his stunning inventions, su[...]