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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Leonardo Da Vinci

Written by Sherwin Nuland

Narrated by Scott Brick

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

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In Leonardo Da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject's art, relationships, and scientific studies. He detects the siren voice that so often lured the great artist into the arms of science-Leonardo's fascination with anatomy, first as the basis for his paintings and then as the crucial component in his aim to systematize all knowledge of nature. Scholarly and passionate, Nuland's Leonardo Da Vinci takes us deep into the first truly modern, empirical mind, one that was centuries ahead of its time.

"Nuland's ability to distill one of the greatest minds ever into its pure essence is truly awe-inspiring."-Time

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 27, 2000
ISBN9781415910825
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Sherwin Nuland

Sherwin Nuland, M.D., is the author of bestselling nonfiction titles including How We Die, for which he won the National Book Award. He is clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history and bioethics.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I 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 stars
    4/5
    Good 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 stars
    2/5
    Thin, 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 stars
    2/5
    Not 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.