Leonardo da Vinci Notes (Illustrated Edition)

Author: (Italian) Leonardo da Vinci
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci was published in 1651 by a French publisher named Raphael Dufrisen, who compiled it based on Leonardo da Vinci's handwritten notes. The original notebooks were very casual, mostly written on disorganized paper, unsorted, and unnumbered. Some were even written in reverse by the author with his left hand—da Vinci could write and draw with both hands—requiring to hold a mirror to decipher them. The notebooks covered everything, often lacking continuity, with one page starting about astronomy or some natural phenomenon, then moving on to the principles of sound, followed by color, with many notes written in the margins of the paper. Yet it was these impromptu discussions that shone with the brilliance of profound insights, offering endless wisdom and inspiration, reflecting how, in that intellectually vibrant era, da Vinci's many perspectives had reached such heights.