INTRODUCTION
LEONARDO’S GENIUS
Some 7,200 pages of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks are with us today. Imagine, 500 years after his death, we still have his writings—but not all of them. Leonardo’s biographers believe that in his lifetime he may have filled between 20,000 and 28,000 pages with writings and detailed drawings about anatomy, botany, philosophy, physiology, engineering, architecture, zoology, painting, geometry, geography, and more. Somewhere they went missing. We’ve lost so many of his ideas and studies, questions and answers, but from the 7,200 pages we have, we’re able to see how Leonardo worked, and that is where we are lucky.
Leonardo (1452–1519) is recognized as one of the great geniuses of the Renaissance period in Europe, which ...
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