Front Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note to Readers -- Timeline -- ONE A Boy in Vinci -- Setting Up Your Studio -- Observing Nature -- Brush Up on Birds -- TWO The Young Apprentice -- A Beaker for Brushes -- Framed! -- A Life Mask -- Kitchen Clay -- Perspective -- The Renaissance -- Animal Art -- Well-Bannered -- Pinpointing the Vanishing Point -- THREE A Genius at Work -- Leonardo's Letter to Ludovico -- Leonardo's Lute -- Mirror Writing -- A Discovery Notebook -- Measuring Up -- The Plague -- A Masque of the Planets -- Leonardo's Prophecies -- Eye Exercises -- Leonardo's Inventions -- Italy's Kingdoms and City-States -- Leonardo's Lunch -- For the Birds -- Salai's Aniseed Sweets -- Mental Exercise -- Leonardo's Lock -- Learn a Little Italian -- Flight -- A Parachute Kite -- Restoring The Last Supper -- Missiles and Math -- FOUR "I Shall Continue." -- The Nature of Sound -- Art Detectives -- The Craft of Cartography -- How Tall Is That Tree? -- Simple Machines -- Who Was Mona Lisa? -- Looking at Art -- A Renaissance Herb Garden -- Glossary -- Biographies -- Resources -- Bibliography -- Credits.