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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

by Sherwin B. Nuland

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 170 PAGES

In this compact book, writer and professor of surgery (How We Die) Nuland succinctly summarizes the life and times of "the most relentlessly curious man in history." Nuland reviews da Vinci's diverse achievements and obsessions, with special attention to his explorations into anatomy. A volume in the excellent Penguin Lives series.  (ITL684, $14.00)


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