Notebooks.
Title:
Notebooks.
Author:
da Vinci, Leonardo.
ISBN:
9780191559501
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (562 pages)
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Acknowledgements -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Leonardo da Vinci -- NOTEBOOKS -- I. TRUE SCIENCE -- I. EXPERIENCE -- II. REASON AND NATURE'S LAWS -- III. MATHEMATICAL DEMONSTRATION -- IV. EXPERIMENT -- V. SEARCH FOR TRUE KNOWLEDGE -- II. THE UNIVERSE -- I. THE FOUR ELEMENTS -- 1. Water -- 2. Water and Earth -- (a) The Deluge and Shells -- (b) Rivers and Strata -- (c) The Mediterranean -- 3. Water and Air -- 4. Earth, Water, Air, and Fire -- 5. Microcosm and Macrocosm -- 6. A Spirit amid the Elements: Its limitations -- 7. The Vault of Heaven -- II. THE FOUR POWERS OF NATURE -- Plans for a Book on Theoretical Mechanics -- 1. Weight -- 2. Force and Weight -- 3. Movement -- 4. Movement and Weight -- 5. Movement and Force -- 6. Impetus and Percussion 70 -- III. MECHANICS -- References to Books on Applied Mechanics -- 1. Friction -- 2. Weighing Instruments -- 3. Wheels and Weight -- 4. The Screw -- III. FLIGHT -- I. MOVEMENT THROUGH WIND AND WATER -- II. STRUCTURE OF BIRDS' WINGS -- III. SWIMMING AND FLIGHT -- IV. FLYING MACHINE -- IV. THE ARTS -- I. THE ARTIST'S COURSE OF STUDY -- 1. The Eye and the Appearance of Things -- (a) The Five Senses -- (b) The Eye -- (c) Perspective -- 2. The Surface of Things and Light -- (a) The Geometric Foundation -- (b) Light and Shade and Colour -- 3. The Life and Structure of Things -- (a) Proportion -- (b) The Anatomy and Movement of the Body -- (c) Physiology -- (d) The Tongue -- (e) The Lips -- (f) The Embryo -- (g) Comparative Anatomy -- (h) Draperies -- (i) Botany -- 4. The Expression of the Spirit -- 5. Composition -- II. COMPARISON OF THE ARTS -- 1. Painting, Music, and Poetry -- 2. Time and Space -- 3. Sound and Space -- 4. Painting and Sculpture -- III. ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING -- IV. THE ARTIST'S LIFE.
V. TALES AND ALLEGORIES -- I. BESTIARY -- II. FABLES -- III. PROPHECIES -- IV. JESTS -- V. SYMBOLISM -- VI. IMAGINATIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF NATURE -- 1. The Whale -- 2. Mount Taurus -- 3. The Giant -- VI. REFLECTIONS ON LIFE -- I. LIFE PASSES -- II. LIFE OF THE BODY -- III. LIFE OF THE SPIRIT -- IV. ON GOVERNMENT -- VII. LEONARDO'S WAY THROUGH LIFE -- I. FIRST FLORENTINE PERIOD (c.1464/9-1482/3) -- II. FIRST MILANESE PERIOD (1481-1499) -- III. SECOND FLORENTINE PERIOD (1500-1506) -- IV. SECOND MILANESE PERIOD (1506-1513) -- V. ROMAN PERIOD (1513-1516) -- VI. FRENCH PERIOD (1516-1519) -- Explanatory Notes -- References to Manuscripts and Sources -- Index -- Footnotes.
Abstract:
This selection offers a cross-section from the 6,000 surviving sheets that constitute Leonardo's notebooks, including his thoughts on landscape, optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Leonardo expert Martin Kemp. - ;'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.'. Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. In them he recorded everything that interested him in the world around him, and his study of how things work. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity he studied the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. He. jotted down fables and letters and developed his belief in the sublime unity of nature and man. Through his notebooks we can get an insight into Leonardo's thoughts, and his approach to work and life. This selection offers a cross-section of his writings, organized around coherent themes. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo. - ;A remarkable insight into the Renaissance mind. - The Guardian.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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