Léonard de Vinci: La biographie (QUANTO) (French Edition)

In collecting such a medley of ideas, Leonardo was following a practice that had become popular in Renaissance Italy of keeping a commonplace and sketch book, known as a zibaldone. But in their content, Leonardo’s were like nothing the world had ever, or has ever, seen. His notebooks have been rightly called “the most astonishing testament to the p

Avec du particulier, du pulsionnel, Léonard de Vinci a su créer des œuvres dans lesquelles nous nous reconnaissons ; avec de l’intime, il a su créer de l’universel.

There is one final document. On April 23, 1518, eight days after his sixty-seventh birthday, Leonardo had his last will and testament drawn up by a notary in Amboise, witnessed, and signed. He had been ill, and like a good son of a notary he began getting his affairs in order. It begins, “Be it known to all persons, present and to come, that at the

After twenty years of observing, he decided to compile his notes into a treatise. Much of the work was gathered into an eighteen-folio notebook, now known as the Codex on the Flight of Birds.10 It begins by exploring the concepts of gravity and density, and it ends by envisioning the launch of a flying machine he had designed and comparing its comp