Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

Fascinating but hard to read. None of the referenced illustrations are included. Some entries are small or lists, some are quite detailed. An index would be great.

FROM AMAZON: Leonardo da Vinci 'artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man'is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about the natural and man-made world. During his life he created numerous works of art and kept voluminous notebooks that detailed his artistic and intellectual pursuits. The collection of writings are drawn from his notebooks. The book organizes his wide range of interests into subjects such as human figures, light and shade, perspective and visual perception, anatomy, botany and landscape, geography, the physical sciences and astronomy, architecture, sculpture, and inventions.… (meer)