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Learning from Leonardo - Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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Learning from Leonardo - Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer,
mathematician, architect, inventor, and even musician - the
archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also a profoundly modern
man. Not only did Leonardo invent the empirical scientific method
over a century before Galileo and Francis Bacon, but Capra's decade
- long study of Leonardo's fabled notebooks reveals that he was a
systems thinker centuries before the term was coined. At the very
core of Leonardo's science, Capra argues, lies his persistent quest
for understanding the nature of life. His science is a science of
living forms, of qualities and patterns, radically different from
the mechanistic science that emerged 200 years later. Because he
saw the world as an integrated whole, Leonardo always applied
concepts from one area to illuminate problems in another. His
studies of the movement of water informed his ideas about how
landscapes are shaped, how sap rises in plants, how air moves over
a bird's wing, and how blood flows in the human body. His
observations of nature enhanced his art, his drawings were integral
to his scientific studies, and he brought art, science, and
technology together in his beautiful and elegant mechanical and
architectural designs. Capra describes seven defining
characteristics of Leonardo da Vinci's genius and includes a list
of over forty discoveries he made that weren't rediscovered until
centuries later. Capra follows the organizational scheme Leonardo
himself intended to use if he ever published his notebooks. So in a
sense, this is Leonardo's science as he himself would have
presented it. Obviously, we can't all be geniuses on the scale of
Leonardo da Vinci. But his persistent endeavor to put life at the
very center of his art, science, and design and his recognition
that all natural phenomena are fundamentally interconnected and
interdependent are important lessons we can learn from. By
exploring the mind of the preeminent Renaissance genius, we can
gain profound insights into how to address the complex challenges
of the 21st century.
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