The Science of Leonardo
The Science of Leonardo
- ISBN 13:
9781400078837
- ISBN 10:
1400078830
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 12/02/2008
- Publisher: Anchor
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Summary
Through his studies of living and nonliving forms, from architecture and human anatomy to the turbulence of water and the growth patterns of grasses, Leonardo da Vinci pioneered the empirical, systematic approach to the observation of naturewhat is now known as the scientific method. Acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals that, in many ways, Leonardo is the unacknowledged "father of modern science." Drawing on an examination of over 6,000 pages of Leonardo's surviving notebooks, Capra explains that Leonardo approached scientific knowledge with the eyes of an artist and though he was a mechanical genius, his worldview was not mechanistic but organic and ecological. A fascinating portrait of a genius centuries ahead of his time.