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This handsome gold-embossed hardback presents extracts from Leonardo da Vinci's famous notebooks, richly illustrated with more than 100 full-colour facsimile images. Combining Leonardo's famous mirror writing with the most beautifully detailed drawings and sketches, these extracts are divided into sections on art, anatomy, the physical sciences, designs, philosophy and his personal letters and allegorical writings. In his own words, you will learn about the intricacies of painting techniques, the nature of flight, the practical concerns of engineering and much more besides. With an extended biographical introduction adapted from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1568), this book brings to life this polymath and genius who was truly the quintessential 'Renaissance Man'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Deluxe Reference Library series bring together beautiful gold-embossed hardbacks with striking full-colour images and illustrations, covering fascinating subjects across history, art and science.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the most brilliant men of the Italian Renaissance. He was a superb painter, sculptor, architect, as well as a magnificent inventor. His intellectual interests spanned all categories of human knowledge and pioneered designs for incredible inventions. His work on human anatomy provided the foundation for modern medicine.

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