Da Vinci Notebooks

    Or everyone who has read and enjoyed Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code,here is an exceptional instght into da Vinci's inner world ,in his own words and images.
He notebooks of leonardo da Vinci-atreasure house of unparalleled ingenuity,curiosity and creative energy-have inspired their readers for centuries.Fascinating and tantalising by turns,the individual pages of the notebooks,densely covered with da Vinci's ketches,jottings,calculations and detailed diagrams,are among the most prized possession of the wold's great art collectors.
Ainter,sculptor,engineer;mathematician,philosopher,inventor;architect,anatomist and naturalist-da Vinci's talents are seemingly endless.This new seletion form the notebooks,bursting with imagination and quirkiness,someitmes cryptic or even incomprehensible,is the perfect introduction to the mysteries of leonardo da Vinci.Theose who know him as the celebrated painter of The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa will be astonished and intrigued by this sprkling testament to one of greatest minds of Western civilisation.

    A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation.
Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance and Western civilisation. His celebrated notebooks display the astonishing range of his genius.
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and recent in-depth biographies have stimulated renewed interest in Leonardo and his complex and enquiring intelligence. This brand-new selection of sketches, diagrams and writings from the notebooks is a beautiful and varied record of Leonardo’s theories and observations, embracing not only art but also architecture, town planning, engineering, naval warfare, music, medicine, mathematics, science and philosophy.
Complete with a short biographical essay describing Leonardo’s life and achievements, this is the perfect introduction to a mysterious and endlessly fascinating genius.

Introduction:The genius of da Vinci
1 On his own writings
2 On paintin in general
3 The perspecive of disappearance
4 On the theory of colours
5 Aerial perspective
6 On the proportions and movements of the human figure
7 Moral precepts for the student of painting
8 Juding a picture
9 On light and shade
10 Observing
11 Gestures and character
12 The artist's materials
13 Philosophy of the art of painting
14 Allegorical representations
15 Mottoes and emblems
16 Notes on sculpture
17 Observations on architecture
18 Anatomy
19 Man comparde with animals
20 Physiology and medicine
21 On astronomy
22 Geography
23 Noter on the natural world
24 Machines and warfare
25 Number tricks
26 Philosophical maxims
27 Moral sayings
28 Polemics
29 Studies on the life and habits of animals
30 Fables
31 Jests and tales
32 Prophecies