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Leonardo Da Vinci
Written by Alex Raynham
Narrated by Multiple Narrators
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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'What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly?' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?' All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a river ...
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very informative and well read I learned that Da Vinci was more then just a painter
also an engineer and great thinker and ahead of his time with his inventions and study
of the human anatomy. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5loved the way it has been narrated. I know what I wanted to know now. Thanks to scribd.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I knew next to nothing about the subject, and this book served moderately well as a short introduction. Nuland is most excited about our hero as a student of anatomy, which makes sense as Nuland is a medical doctor. There were interesting bits about the process of preserving the anatomy for dissection; we have it so easy now in biology class.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good but brief look at a fascinating man. I knew he was an artist but I never realized the breadth of his curiosity and his genius.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Thin, short and not particularly compelling. I understand that there isn't much biographical information available, and I think Nuland gave it the old college try, but this just didn't work for me.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Not what it could have been. Nuland seems as much in thrall of Leonardo that he warns about early in this short biography. Apparently Leonardo was so ahead of his time that any "warts" in his life can be excused. Leonardo may have been the first to do a lot of things, including studies of the human body, but since he didn't finish his project to publish his work, virtually everything had to be rediscovered.Some of Nuland's personal views bleed through more than on more than a few pages.