The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. I

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. IScientist, painter, mechanical engineer, sculptor, thinker, city planner, storyteller, musician, architect Leonardo da Vinci, builder of the first flying machine, was one of the great universal geniuses of Western civilization. His voluminous notebooks, the great storehouse of his theories and discoveries, are presented here in 1566 extracts that reveal the full range of Leonardo's versatile interest: all the important writings on painting, sculpture,

Florence Scovel Shinn taught generations of readers how to live richer

and all other fine and applied arts

Sloane shows readers how to predict the weather by "reading" such natural phenomena as winds

hard work and small pay

books on steichen

noted textile designer and lichen expert Karen Casselman explains how to create and use dyes derived from these unusual plants

and none is his superior in the gift of clear exposition

books on lindisfarne

He discusses the aims of students and artists and offers some general advice on technique and method before exploring the specifics of charcoal

affording students an ideal opportunity to read some of Kafka's finest stories in the original

More than a thousand years later

painting and sculpture