Learning from Leonardo :
Capra, Fritjof,
Learning from Leonardo : decoding the notebooks of a genius / Fritjof Capra. - First edition. - xiii, 380 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm. - A BK currents book. . - A BK currents book. .
Includes timeline of scientific discoveries. Facsimiles on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, writer, and even musician--the archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also, Fritjof Capra argues, 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 reveal him as a systems thinker centuries before the term was coined. He believed the key to truly understanding the world was in perceiving the connections between phenomena and the larger patterns formed by those relationships. This is precisely the kind of holistic approach the complex problems we face today demand. Capra describes seven defining characteristics of Leonardo da Vinci's genius and includes a list of over forty discoveries Leonardo made that weren't rediscovered until centuries later. Leonardo pioneered entire fields--fluid dynamics, theoretical botany, aerodynamics, embryology. Capra's overview of Leonardo's thought follows the organizational scheme Leonardo himself intended to use if he ever published his notebooks. So in a sense, this is Leonardo's science as he himself would have presented it. Leonardo da Vinci saw the world as a dynamic, integrated whole, so he always applied concepts from one area to illuminate problems in another.
9781609949891 (hardback)
2013032747
Discoveries in science.
Creative ability in science.
Science, Renaissance.
Q143.L5 / C368 2014
509.2
Learning from Leonardo : decoding the notebooks of a genius / Fritjof Capra. - First edition. - xiii, 380 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm. - A BK currents book. . - A BK currents book. .
Includes timeline of scientific discoveries. Facsimiles on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, writer, and even musician--the archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also, Fritjof Capra argues, 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 reveal him as a systems thinker centuries before the term was coined. He believed the key to truly understanding the world was in perceiving the connections between phenomena and the larger patterns formed by those relationships. This is precisely the kind of holistic approach the complex problems we face today demand. Capra describes seven defining characteristics of Leonardo da Vinci's genius and includes a list of over forty discoveries Leonardo made that weren't rediscovered until centuries later. Leonardo pioneered entire fields--fluid dynamics, theoretical botany, aerodynamics, embryology. Capra's overview of Leonardo's thought follows the organizational scheme Leonardo himself intended to use if he ever published his notebooks. So in a sense, this is Leonardo's science as he himself would have presented it. Leonardo da Vinci saw the world as a dynamic, integrated whole, so he always applied concepts from one area to illuminate problems in another.
9781609949891 (hardback)
2013032747
Discoveries in science.
Creative ability in science.
Science, Renaissance.
Q143.L5 / C368 2014
509.2