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The #1 New York Times bestseller
“A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.” —The New Yorker
“Vigorous, insightful.” —The Washington Post
“A masterpiece.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Luminous.” —The Daily Beast
He was history’s most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us?
The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy.
He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius.
His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history’s most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo’s lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions.
Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.
用戶評價
##Sure, all the more reason to fuck around and procrastinate
評分##達芬奇能夠原諒自己碌碌無為的時光
評分##看得特彆想練習畫畫，什麼都不是天生的，都是練齣來的
評分##這本寫得非常流暢，以Leonardo的筆記為綫索，一點點展開他傾注心血和熱情的點點滴滴……作者始終在強調，我們不能否認Leonardo是天纔，有著我們無法企及的天賦，但同時要看的他也是一個活生生的人，也正因如此，他的畫作、研究纔變得更為生動和鮮活，充滿革命性以及發展的可能……最重要的點可能是，帶著好奇心關注一切“無用”的東西，帶著熱情深挖到極緻，始終相信提升到可能（這也許不會讓我成為一個全能大師，但是給瞭我procrastinate的理由（bushi
評分##Vegetarian Became a strict vegetarian subsequently, because he discovered through observation that animals could feel pain like men did. Curiosity | Observation | Patterns | Analogies Repeated his experiments several times, observing whether or not the results were identical. Engineering. Physics. Optics. Mechanics. Biology. Geometry. Geology.
評分##這本寫得非常流暢，以Leonardo的筆記為綫索，一點點展開他傾注心血和熱情的點點滴滴……作者始終在強調，我們不能否認Leonardo是天纔，有著我們無法企及的天賦，但同時要看的他也是一個活生生的人，也正因如此，他的畫作、研究纔變得更為生動和鮮活，充滿革命性以及發展的可能……最重要的點可能是，帶著好奇心關注一切“無用”的東西，帶著熱情深挖到極緻，始終相信提升到可能（這也許不會讓我成為一個全能大師，但是給瞭我procrastinate的理由（bushi
評分##Man of a century. Driven by pure curiosity and wonders of nature. A painter, engineer, musician, anatomist, scientist....and I will always moved dearly by Leonardo's drive to simply describe the tongue of the woodpecker, like a child. Take joy for its own sake, not for the world.
評分##covid read
評分##Curiosity
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