The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. I Romanesque ornament

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these drawings convey at a glance the whole aura of that splendid age and help to make this a book that boys and girls will cherish for years to come

Havelock Ellis

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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. I Romanesque ornamentScientist, 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,