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Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, and even musician—the archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also a profoundly modern man. Not only did Leonardo invent the empirical scientific method over a century before Galileo and Francis Bacon, but Capra’s decade-long study of Leonardo’s fabled notebooks reveals that he was a systems thinker centuries before the term was coined. At the very core of Leonardo’s science, Capra argues, lies his persistent quest for understanding the nature of life. His science is a science of living forms, of qualities and patterns, radically different from the mechanistic science that emerged 200 years later. Because he saw the world as an integrated whole, Leonardo always applied concepts from one area to illuminate problems in another. His studies of the movement of water informed his ideas about how landscapes are shaped, how sap rises in plants, how air moves over a bird’s wing, and how blood flows in the human body. His observations of nature enhanced his art, his drawings were integral to his scientific studies, and he brought art, science, and technology together in his beautiful and elegan

Who reads Learning From Leonardo : Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius?

Author

Fritjof Capra [Capra, Fritjof]

Publisher

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609949891

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Philosophy

Rating

3.9 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14