Audiobook1 hour
Leonardo Da Vinci
Written by Alex Raynham
Narrated by Multiple Narrators
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
About this audiobook
'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 ...
More audiobooks from Alex Raynham
All About Space Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How We Make Products Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Swiss Family Robinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Materials to Products Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPebbles on the Beach Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Leonardo Da Vinci
Titles in the series (58)
Goodbye, Mr. Hollywood Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Card Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dinosaurs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChocolate Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Coldest Place on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5William Shakespeare Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Kiss: Love Stories from North America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPocahontas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bronte Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death in the Freezer Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Grace Darling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tess of the d'Urbervilles Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chemical Secret Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Far from the Madding Crowd Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love of a King Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tales from Longpuddle Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/547 Ronin A Samurai Story from Japan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Henry VIII and His Six Wives Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elephant Man Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Gandhi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dead Man's Island Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Through the Looking-Glass Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hollywood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWorld Wonders Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Three Strangers and Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMary Queen of Scots Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Bridge and Other Love Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Withered Arm Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related audiobooks
Thoughts On Art and Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmazing Architects and Artists: A2-B1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Oceans Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gandhi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sheherazade Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mysterious Death of Charles Bravo Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5San Francisco Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amazing Entrepreneurs and Business People: B2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Les Misérables Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bird of Happiness and Other Wise Tales Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing Mathematicians: A2-B1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hercules Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amazing Entrepreneurs and Business People: A2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eight Great American Tales: Dominoes: Level Two Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5William Shakespeare Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Amazing Scientists: B2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sinbad Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robinson Crusoe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Man Without a Country Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bronte Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coldest Place on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prince and the Pauper: Timeless Classics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year of Sharing Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Formula One Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing Philanthropists: B1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jane Eyre: Timeless Classics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sherlock Holmes: Two Plays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related categories
Reviews for Leonardo Da Vinci
Rating: 3.5106383063829787 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
47 ratings6 reviews
- 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.