Leonardo Da Vinci Best Inventions - April 2024

Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions: You Can Build Yourself (Build It Yourself)

Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself introduces readers to the life, world, and incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects that explore his invention ideas. Most of Leonardo's inventions were never made in his lifetime—they remained sketches in his famous notebooks. Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself shows you how to bring these ideas to life using common household supplies. Detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for creating each project combine with historical facts and anecdotes, biographies a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0974934429
• ASIN: 0974934429
• ISBN: 9780974934426
• Brand: IPG - Int'l Pub Group
• Manufacturer: Nomad Press

Leonardo da Vinci

• ASIN: 1501139150
• ASIN: 1501139150
• ISBN: 1501139150
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Journal of Inventions: Leonardo da Vinci

“I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly,” wrote Leonardo da Vinci in his journal alongside a sketch for an impossibly ingenious invention he called his Flying Machine. Though never built, it takes flight here in Journal of Inventions: Leonardo da Vinci. This fascinating book is an exquisite collection of elaborate 3-D pop-ups and detailed illustrations based on the personal notebooks and sketches of the Renaissance’s most influential mind. Discover da Vinci’s Mechanical Man, coil-spring clock mechanisms, hydraulic contraptions, and designs for... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1592239080
• ASIN: 1592239080
• ISBN: 1592239080
• Brand: Silver Dolphin Books
• Manufacturer: Silver Dolphin Books

Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters.  Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to.  Only thirteen paintings are known to be his; as for the illustrated encyclopedia he intended to create, all that he left were thousands of disorganized notebook pages.  Here is an accessible portrait of a fascinating man who lived at a fascinating time—Italy during the Renaissance.

• ASIN: 0448443015
• ASIN: 0448443015
• ISBN: 0448443015
• Brand: Grosset & Dunlap
• Manufacturer: Penguin Workshop

Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks (Oxford World's Classics)

Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. He jotted down fables, epigrams, 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 approac... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0199299021
• ASIN: 0199299021
• ISBN: 9780199299027
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci

An introduction to Leonardo da Vinci's genius focusing on his famous notebook sketches and the modern inventions they predicted.In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu built the first helicopter. But Leonardo da Vinci thought of all these ideas more than five hundred years ago! At once an artist, inventor, engineer, and scientist, da Vinci wrote and drew detailed descriptions of what would later become hang gliders, automobiles, robots, and much more. In Neo Geo, Gene Barretta ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0805087036
• ASIN: 0805087036
• ISBN: 0805087036
• Brand: Henry Holt and Co
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

Leonardo da Vinci. The Complete Paintings and Drawings

One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is recognized the world over as a figure of infinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability.This updated edition of our XL title provides the most comprehensive survey of the life and work of this master painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, and inventor. Its catalogue raisonné of Leonardo’s paintings covers both his surviving and his lost painted works. With full-bleed details of many paintings, the reader is able to inspect the subtlest facets of brushworks that came to... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3836527014
• ASIN: 3836527014
• ISBN: 3836527014
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: TASCHEN

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution—and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476708703
• ASIN: 1476708703
• ISBN: 1476708703
• Brand: SIMON SCHUSTER
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Leonardo da Vinci: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of Painters Book 1)

Leonardo da VinciCreativity is in our bones. It is found in our very DNA, something not known to Leonardo da Vinci or anyone else who lived in his day and time. All he did was to uncover the hidden genius which lay within himself, and he used that inner genius to the very best of his abilities. Leonardo da Vinci is best known for some of the world's most masterful paintings, but he was so much more than merely another artist with paints and brushes. Born to a peasant woman in 1452, Leonardo would go on to astound the world he lived in with his artistry and his inventions.Inside you will read a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MSL98U2
• ASIN: B01MSL98U2

Who Were the Wright Brothers? (Who Was?)

As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical.  As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on.  As adults, the brothers worked together to invent, build, and fly the world’s first successful airplane. This is the fascinating story of the two inventors and aviation pioneers who never lost sight of their dream: to fly, and to soar higher!

• ASIN: 0448479516
• ASIN: 0448479516
• ISBN: 0448479516
• Brand: Grosset Dunlap
• Manufacturer: Penguin Workshop

Leonardo and the Flying Boy (Anholt's Artists Books For Children)

Zoro is a little boy in 17th-century Italy, long before airplanes flew in the sky. But Zoro is also an apprentice to the artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci--and Leonardo is experimenting with a revolutionary flying machine! This is a title in Barron's Anholt's Artists Books for Children series, in which author and illustrator Laurence Anholt recalls memorable and sometimes amusing moments when the lives of the artists were touched by children. Anholt's fine illustrations appear on every page and include reproductions of works by the artists.

• ASIN: 0764138510
• ASIN: 0764138510
• ISBN: 0764138510
• Brand: Barron's
• Manufacturer: B.E.S. Publishing

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Volume 2)

Scientist, painter, mechanical engineer, sculptor, thinker, city planner, storyteller, musician, architect — Leonardo da Vinci, builder of the first flying machine, was one of the great universal geniuses of Western civilization. His voluminous notebooks, the great storehouse of his theories and discoveries, are presented here in 1566 extracts that reveal the full range of Leonardo's versatile interest: all the important writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, astronomy, geography, topography, and other fields are included, in both Italian and English, with 186 plates of manu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486225739
• UPC: 800759225736
• ASIN: 0486225739
• ISBN: 0486225739
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

The Da Vinci Notebooks: A Dazzling Array of da Vinci's Celebrated and Inspirational Inventions, Theories, and Observations

Towering across time as the creator of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance and Western civilization. His keen scientific imagination and, most of all, his aesthetic and creative genius have forever changed the course of our culture. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and recent in-depth biographies have stimulated renewed interest in da Vinci and his complex and inquiring intelligence. He is a challenging figure easily defined only by his great works, but this revealing selection of sketches, dia... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1611450527
• ASIN: 1611450527
• ISBN: 1611450527
• Manufacturer: Arcade

Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, and Design

Here, the world's leading authority on Leonardo da Vinci takes us to the heart of the Renaissance master's genius--his visual thinking. Probing the mystery of how da Vinci thought graphically, on paper, Martin Kemp traces not only his approach to modeling but also fascinating efforts by modern engineering to build his inventions. Could these inventions have worked? We see da Vinci visualizing mighty ideas from the arts of peace to the science of war--great visions of the earth, the mystery of mathematical proportion in the design of the universe, detailed observations on the motion of waters, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691129053
• ASIN: 0691129053
• ISBN: 0691129053
• Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

Leonardo Da Vinci, Artist, Scientist, Inventor

In this magnificent book, whick includes 180 color and 40 black and white illustrations, Martin Kemp and Jane Roberts develop a cumulative picture of the visual and intellectual patterns behind Leonardo's creativity as an artist-inventor. After a biographical sketch that pinpoints significant moments in his artistic, technological and scientific careers, the authors discuss such themes as "The Ages of Man" , "Body of Earth and Body of Man", "Structure and Mechanism" and "The Forces of Destruction".

• ASIN: 0300045085
• ASIN: 0300045085
• ISBN: 0300045085
• Manufacturer: Yale Univ Pr

Amazing Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions : You Can Build Yourself

9780974934426

• UPC: 3945808
• Rating: 3.0

30-Second Leonardo Da Vinci: His 50 greatest ideas and inventions, each explained in half a minute - eBook

Artist, anatomist, architect, botanist, cartographer, engineer, mathematician, musician, scientist, sculptor – the word ‘polymath’ cannot provide the full measure of Leonardo da Vinci’s extraordinary talents. If you only know Leonardo as the painter of the

• UPC: 555793270

A Reference Guide to Leonardo Da Vinci : His Life, Paintings, Analyses of His Lost Works, and Inventions

A Reference Guide to Leonardo Da

• UPC: 169600802

Aforismi, Novelle e Profezie - eBook

È invece aspramente censore della magia, la «negromanzia, stendardo ovver bandiera volante mossa dal vento, guidatrice della stolta moltitudine». I negromanti «hanno empiuti i libri, affermando che l'incanti e spiriti adoperino e sanza lingua parlino,

• UPC: 780964733

The Da Vinci Notebooks : A Dazzling Array of da Vinci's Celebrated and Inspirational Inventions, Theories, and Observations

Originally published: United Kingdom: Profile Books,

• UPC: 15279106