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FRITJOF CAPRA is the author of four international bestsellers, The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, Uncommon Wisdom, and The Web of Life. His most recent book is The Hidden Connection. He is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, and has been the focus of television interviews and magazine features. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Acknowledgments | |
Photographic Acknowledgments | |
Preface | |
Introduction: An Interpreter of Nature | p. 1 |
Leonardo, the Man | |
Infinite Grace | p. 15 |
The Universal Man | p. 32 |
The Florentine | p. 64 |
A Well-Employed Life | p. 90 |
Leonardo, the Scientist | |
Science in the Renaissance | p. 137 |
Science Born Of Experience | p. 157 |
Geometry Done with Motion | p. 191 |
Pyramids Of Light | p. 212 |
The Eye, the Senses, and the Soul | p. 237 |
Epilogue: "Read me, O reader, if in my words you find delight" | p. 257 |
Leonardo's Geometry of Transformations | p. 267 |
Notes | p. 275 |
Leonardo's Notebooks: Facsimiles and Transcriptions | p. 299 |
Bibliography | p. 303 |
Index | p. 309 |
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