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DramaNot a true description of content . There were no drawings to go along with description. When one sees a DaVinci notebook, the drawings play such an important part. I really feel cheated! I wish I would have read the reviews before I purchased, because I am not the only customer to feel this way!
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It's great to have a translation of the notebooks, but I thought there'd be accompanying sketches and other visuals. I really needed this for a term paper I'm writing on Da Vinci and aircraft.
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Though there are nice, complete versions of Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, this well designed, edited, and packaged book presents the most important and pertinent elements from his Notebooks in a single large format hardcover version that is the perfect presentation for the general audience. This version of da Vinci's Notebooks presents the contents in sections that group like illustrations and text together: "Beauty, Reason...
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Reading the words that were penned by the master himself is a spine tingling experience. Even if you have trouble understanding it, or can't really learn anything, you are exposing yourself to the words and teachings of one of the greatest thinkers ever to walk the planet. That in itself is an amazing and inspirational experience. This is a greatly presented work. It contains only a small portion of all his work, (many pages...
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His all inspiring nature seems to outlive time. My only probably with this book is the repeated assumption that he was gay. First of all who cares, second of all no one really knows aside from his paintings of gentlemen and the such. I feel the book would be stronger without Emma Dickens assumptions of his sexuality. If you wanna give us the facts, then gives us the facts. The main problem with any book like this, when talking...
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