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Leonardo's Notebooks | 
 enlarge | Author: Leonardo Da Vinci
Creator: H. Anna Suh
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 79196
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.4
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 10.7 x 1.6
ISBN: 1579124577
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.2
EAN: 9781579124571
ASIN: 1579124577
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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Product Description
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed arguably the greatest mind the world has ever known. Artist, draftsman, inventor, and philosopher, his contributions to modern society are profound and wide-reaching. Throughout his life, Leonardo kept dozens of notebooks, elegant studies on topics ranging from architecture to botany to philosophy—indeed nearly anything of which the human imagination could conceive.
Leonardo’s Notebooks collects a variety of the most fascinating of these studies and compiles them into one monumental volume that demystifies his insights and clearly illustrates his ideas, experiments, and observations with hundreds of his original sketches, line drawings, and paintings. Topics include Anatomy and the Movement of the Human Figure; Botany and Landscape; Engineering and Military Engineering; Physical Sciences; Aerodynamics and Flight; Geography—and more.
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Leonardo Up Close & Personal June 13, 2008
As an Art History professor, I am very impressed with Leonardo's Notebooks. This oversized book contains Leonardo da Vinci's detailed sketches, many of which are new to me. In addition, this book provides commentary written by the artist himself on his theories, inventions, plans for artwork, and philosopohies. I've referred this text to fellow professors as a remarkable resource for philosophical beliefs presented by the original Renaissance Man.
 Very good book. December 19, 2007
The only thing keeping this book from top grade is that the author didn't help with a deduction of Leonardo's letters where it surely was needed - in the anatomical studies for example.
This makes it hard to understand the meaning of the drawings compared with the translated text, because Leonardo's letters(in the drawings) doesn't look like anything from the Roman alphabet. So when the meaning of the letters that appears in the drawings are mentioned in the text, you can't understand what letters goes with what in the drawings, because the text ONLY use the Roman alphabet(and NOT Leonardo's letters as seen in the drawings).
In other words, to fully get the whole meaning of Leonardo's writings and drawings you do need a "Leonardo - Roman alphabet" dictionary.
This is a major set back, and the worst is that the author could have avoided this so easily.
Other than that the book is amazing.
Ingenious Notebooks October 29, 2007
If you are a book lover, adding this to your collection is a must.
The illustrations are well formatted with clearly written text. It is a book I keep on display and refer to often. When people visit, they cannot help but stop to thumb through the book.I have to remind them that dinner is getting cold!!
Great Book September 16, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great book that I had been looking forward to getting for a while. The images and writting is good, although a bit hard to understand at times. The ONLY problem I have with this book that gets it a 4 out of 5 stars for me is the fact that it is so tall and wide. Granted it makes looking at the pictures much easier but it also makes storage of this book MUCH harder. The book is to tall to stand on any but the top shelf on all of my book shelfs and it is so wide that it protudes from the edge of the shelf.
Don't let this distract you from getting this book however. It's detailed pictures are wonderful considering the orginal size of the works and the translations help with the reading. There's a section for each catagory, such as anatomy and lighting, which really helps if you want to look at certain types of works. The greatness of these pictures will have you looking at each page for hours, just to see all the details.
I would suggest this book for anyone from an art lover to a history fanatic. I use it as a reference book for one of my drawing classes. It's a great buy for anyone and everyone.
Excellent August 21, 2007
Not one single problem with this book, I would recomend buying it for anyone anytime
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