The complete online text of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo Da Vinci(1452–1519) Leonardo da Vinci, the Florentine artist, scientist, and inventor, was born at Vinci in Tuscany, the natural son of a notary, and died near Amboise, France. At his death he left a sizable collection of notebooks that...

1452-1519 Italian Painter and Inventor Leonardo da Vinci was the quintessential figure of the Italian Renaissance, and one of the most versatile geniuses who ever lived. His artistic accomplishments alone, including some of the most famous paintings in...

Italian scientist and artist A true Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, inventor, scientist, architect, engineer, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Although centuries after his death he remains known primarily as the artist who...

Italian Painter, Scientist, and Mathematician 1452–1519 Leonardo da Vinci was born in the Italian town of Vinci. As a young boy, he showed a talent for painting. When he was 20 years old, he joined the painters' guild in Florence. Within...

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (pronunciation (help·info)), April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was a Tuscan polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Born at Vinci...

This autumn a number of exhibitions devoted to Leonardo da Vinci are being held throughout Europe. There is no obvious reason, such as an anniversary, but rather a desire on the part of the Council of Europe to promote Leonardo's legacy through exhibitions...

Martin Gani is a British freelance writer based in Italy. He writes for a number of cultural, travel, language, and general-interest periodicals, including The World & I, and for many inflight magazines. Some five hundred years after his departure, Leonardo da Vinci...

Italy's transport minister Tuesday promised a package of measures including extra staff to improve the chaotic baggage-handling system at Rome's main airport.Thousands of bags of outbound travelers were left unloaded at the Leonardo da Vinci airport at the peak of the holiday season and arriving...

Italy's transport minister Tuesday promised a package of measures including extra staff to improve the chaotic baggage-handling system at Rome's main airport.Thousands of bags of outbound travelers were left unloaded at the Leonardo da Vinci airport at the peak of the holiday season and arriving...

In the following essay, Vallentin surveys Leonardo's interests and studies in military engineering, painting, civil engineering, astronomy, and hydrodynamics. The critic frames her study within the context of Leonardo's “obsession” with flight.

In the following essay, originally published in German in 1910, Freud applies his methods of psychoanalytic investigation to Leonardo's writings. He makes controversial assertions regarding events in Leonardo's childhood and their effect on his later life, maintaining that evidence points to the artist's homosexuality and the sublimation of his sexual urges into his art.

In the following essay, which was originally published in German in 1953, Jaspers provides “an account of Leonardo's philosophizing, describing first the character of his thinking, then its content, and its reflection in the painter's way of life.”

Essay discusses the life, times, and overall accomplishments of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).

Leonardo da Vinci was a dyslexic Italian artist, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, mathematician, scientist, and botanist during the Renaissance period. He studied philosophy, natural history, anatomy, biology, medicine, optics, acoustics, science, mathematics, and hydraulics as well as art.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is considered one of the greatest artists and scientists ever to step foot on our planet. For a man of such extraordinary brilliance and caliber, Leonardo Da Vinci also has his fair share of interesting controversies, such as his claim to have invented the bicycle. Leonardo Da Vinci was not the actual inventor of bicycle, as will be shown through research, literature review and concrete examples.