Learning from Leonardo: Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius

by Fritjof Capra

Book Overview

"This remarkable exposition of Leonardo's work" illuminates how he was centuries ahead of his time--and the lessons we can learn from his style of thought (Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University).

Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, and inventor. But he was also, Fritjof Capra argues, a profoundly modern man. Capra's decade-long study of Leonardo's fabled notebooks reveal him as a "systems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609949897
• ISBN13: 9781609949891
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"