Leonardo da Vinci
From thousands of pages of Leonardo's notebooks, a case that his art and his science were the same relentless curiosity
Isaacson works from the 7,200 surviving pages of Leonardo’s notebooks to portray a mind that refused the line between art and science. The same curiosity that dissected corpses and mapped water currents also painted the Mona Lisa, and Isaacson treats the flying machines, the procrastination and the unfinished commissions as facets of one restless intelligence rather than distractions from the art.
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