LEADER 04164cam 2200541 a 4500001 ocm80020064 003 OCoLC 005 20141212003241.0 008 070119s2007 nyua b 001 0beng 010 2007002461 020 9780385513906 (hbk. : alk. paper) 020 0385513909 (hbk. : alk. paper) 029 1 NLGGC |b307810771 029 1 AU@ |b000041231548 035 (Sirsi) o80020064 035 (OCoLC)80020064 040 DLC |cDLC |dBAKER |dBTCTA |dJED |dC#P |dYDXCP |dYBM |dIXA |dQ2Z |dUXG |dNSB |dERE |dUtOrBLW 043 e-it--- 049 EREE 050 00 Q143.L5 |bC37 2007 082 00 509.2B |222 100 1 Capra, Fritjof. |=^A134814 245 14 The science of Leonardo : |binside the mind of the great genius of the Renaissance / |cFritjof Capra. 250 1st ed. 260 New York : |bDoubleday, |c©2007. 300 xx, 329 pages : |billustrations ; |c25 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-307) and index. 505 0 1: Leonardo, the man -- Infinite grace -- The universal man -- The Florentine -- A well-employed life -- 2: Leonardo, the scientist -- Science in the Renaissance -- Science born of experience -- Geometry done with motion -- Pyramids of light -- The eye, the senses, and the soul -- "Read me, O reader, if in my words you find delight". 520 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, he pioneered the empirical, systematic approach to the observation of nature, what is now known as the scientific method. His scientific explorations were extraordinarily wide-ranging. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines. Using his understanding of weights and levers and trajectories and forces, he designed military weapons and defenses, and was in fact regarded as one of the foremost military engineers of his era. He studied optics, the nature of light, and the workings of the human heart and circulatory system. Because of his vast knowledge of hydraulics, he was hired to create designs for rebuilding the infrastructure of Milan and the plain of Lombardy, employing the very principles still used by city planners today. He was a mechanical genius, and yet his worldview was not mechanistic but organic and ecological. This is why, in the author's view, Leonardo's science, centuries ahead of his time in a host of fields, is eminently relevant to our time. 600 00 Leonardo, |cda Vinci, |d1452-1519. |=^A14861 600 00 Leonardo, |cda Vinci, |d1452-1519 |vNotebooks, sketchbooks, etc. |=^A14861 650 0 Scientists |zItaly |xHistory |yTo 1500 |vBiography. |=^A13294 650 0 Scientists |zItaly |xHistory |y16th century |vBiography. |=^A13294 650 0 Science, Renaissance. |=^A100772 856 41 |3Table of contents only |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007002461.html 856 42 |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007002461-b.html 856 42 |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007002461-d.html 856 41 |3Sample text |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007002461-s.html 994 C0 |bERE 938 Baker & Taylor |bBKTY |c26.00 |d19.50 |i0385513909 |n0007150530 |sactive 938 Baker and Taylor |bBTCP |nBK0007150530 938 YBP Library Services |bYANK |n2558117 596 1 998 1352950