A comprehensive study of the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci. Fantastic discoveries, brilliant insights, great masterpieces and incredible twists in the fate of one of the most prominent scientists and artists in the history of mankind.Leonardo da Vinci is one of the brightest, most versatile and mysterious geniuses of the Renaissance. A huge number of legends and myths developed around him during his lifetime. But the facts that can be collected literally bit by bit are no less amazing. Based on the manuscripts, letters, and notebooks of a Renaissance titan, Walter Isaacson consistently tells the amazing story of his life from childhood to flying machines, from Florence to Milan, from the creation of weapons to the theory of painting, from anatomy and astronomy to the study of fossils and the study of soil erosion, from the Vitruvian Man to the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.Combining science and art, Leonardo has become a completely new phenomenon of the “scientist-artist”, striving to comprehend all the foundations of the universe and reveal all the secrets of life.< p>Copyright© Walter Isaacson, 2017© T. Azarkovich, Russian translation, 2018© A. Bondarenko, artwork, layout, 2018© LLC AST Publishing House, 2018CORPUS® Publishing House© ℗ Audiobook LLC, 2018Audio recording producer: Tatyana Plyuta

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