The Science of Leonardo Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance – Fritjof Capra Korting

Leonardo da Vinci’s pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Now it is revealed that Leonardo was in many ways the unacknowledged “father of modern science.” Drawing on an examination of over 6,000 pages of Leonardo’s surviving notebooks, the author explains that Leonardo approached scientific knowledge with the eyes of an artist. Through his studies of living and nonliving forms, from architecture and human anatomy to the turbulence of water and the growth patterns of grasses, …