About This Book

People hear his name and think artistic genius of the Renaissance, creator of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Yet here is a different Leonardo da Vinci. . . Leonardo the scientist. For more than thirty years - half his life - he was obsessively devoted to investigating EVERYTHING in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest - how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and - most fascinating of all to...