Saturday, September 29, 2007

The Notebooks Of Leonardo DaVinci

Few individuals have the achieved the level of notoriety of
Leonardo da Vinci. The stunning success of Dan Brown's novel Da Vinci Code documents the continued fascination that Leonardo da Vinci holds on our imagination, nearly 500 years after his passing. For many readers the book has surpassed the boundaries of fiction. The book is often discussed not as a novel but as history. Leonardo da Vinci has achieved the rare status of being a real person, who has become so renowned that he can be used as the key
fictional figure in a major commercial success.

Renaissance humanism saw no mutually exclusive polarities between the sciences and the arts, and as impressive and innovative as Leonardo's artistic work are his studies in science and engineering, View the rest of this article


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