The Science of Leonardo

Through his studies of living and nonliving forms, from architecture and human anatomy to the turbulence of water and the growth patterns of grasses, Leonardo da Vinci pioneered the empirical, systematic approach to the observation of naturewhat is now known as the scientific method. Acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals that, in many ways, Leonardo is the unacknowledged "father of modern science." Drawing on an examination of over 6,000 pages of Leonardo's surviving notebooks, Capra explains that Leonardo approached scientific knowledge with the eyes of an artist and though he was a mechanical genius, his worldview was not mechanistic but organic and ecological. A fascinating portrait of a genius centuries ahead of his time.

FRITJOF CAPRA is the author of four international bestsellers, The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, Uncommon Wisdom, and The Web of Life. His most recent book is The Hidden Connections. He is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California and has been the focus of television documentaries and magazine features. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Photographic Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Preface	p. xvii
Introduction: An Interpreter of Nature	p. 1
Leonardo, the Man
Infinite Grace	p. 15
The Universal Man	p. 32
The Florentine	p. 64
A Well-Employed Life	p. 90
Leonardo, the Scientist
Science in the Renaissance	p. 137
Science Born of Experience	p. 157
Geometry Done with Motion	p. 191
Pyramids of Light	p. 212
The Eye, the Senses, and the Soul	p. 237
Epilogue: "Read me, O reader, if in my words you find delight"	p. 257
Leonardo's Geometry of Transformations	p. 267
Notes	p. 275
Leonardo's Notebooks: Facsimiles and Transcriptions	p. 299
Bibliography	p. 303
Index	p. 309
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