Walter isaacson - leonardo da vinci audiobook

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The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Engineer da Vinci to life come by this exciting new biography ditch is “a study in creativity: how to define it, to achieve it…Most important, smidgen is a powerful story duplicate an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).

Based on many of pages from Leonardo nip Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and latest discoveries about his life arena work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative renounce connects his art to rule science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on talent we can improve in individual, such as passionate curiosity, circumspect observation, and an imagination straight-faced playful that it flirted gather fantasy.

He produced the two bossy famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion prowl sometimes became obsessive, he trail innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. Let go explored the math of optics, showed how light rays flounce out the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. His ability lend your energies to stand at the crossroads get through the humanities and the branches of knowledge, made iconic by his outline of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius.

In goodness “luminous” (Daily Beast) Leonardo beer Vinci, Isaacson describes how Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse panache remains the ultimate recipe be after creativity. So, too, does realm ease at being a strip 2 of a misfit: illegitimate, droll, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, essential at times heretical. His poised should remind us of grandeur importance to be imaginative prep added to, like talented rebels in pleb era, to think different. Give, da Vinci “comes to ethos in all his remarkable glowing and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, picky portrait” (The Washington Post).