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050 00 $aQ143.L5$bC37 2007
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100 1 $aCapra, Fritjof.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81099086
245 14 $aThe science of Leonardo :$binside the mind of the great genius of the Renaissance /$cFritjof Capra.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axx, 329 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-307) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: An Interpreter of Nature -- $gPt. 1.$tLeonardo, the Man -- $g1.$tInfinite Grace -- $g2.$tThe Universal Man -- $g3.$tThe Florentine -- $g4.$tA Well-Employed Life -- $gPt. 2.$tLeonardo, the Scientist -- $g5.$tScience in the Renaissance -- $g6.$tScience Born Of Experience -- $g7.$tGeometry Done with Motion -- $g8.$tPyramids Of Light -- $g9.$tThe Eye, the Senses, and the Soul -- $tEpilogue: "Read me, O reader, if in my words you find delight" -- $gApp.$tLeonardo's Geometry of Transformations -- $tLeonardo's Notebooks: Facsimiles and Transcriptions.
520 1 $a"Leonardo da Vinci's pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Now, author Fritjof Capra reveals 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, Capra 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." "Leonardo's 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 Capra's view, Leonardo's science - centuries ahead of his time in a host of fields - is eminently relevant to our time."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aLeonardo,$cda Vinci,$d1452-1519.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034525
600 00 $aLeonardo,$cda Vinci,$d1452-1519$xNotebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
650 0 $aScientists$zItaly$xHistory$yTo 1500$vBiography.
650 0 $aScientists$zItaly$xHistory$y16th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aScience, Renaissance.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118614
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007002461.html
852 00 $bmil$hQ143.L5$iC37 2007