Leonardo da Vinci’s pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Now acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals that Leonardo was in many ways the unacknowledged “father of modern science.” Drawing on an examination of over 6,000 pages of Leonardo’s surviving notebooks, Capra explains that Leonardo approached scientific knowledge with the eyes of an artist. Through his studies of living and nonliving forms, from architecture and human anatomy to the turbulence of water and the growth patterns of grasses, he pioneered the empirical, systematic approach to the observation of nature—what is now known as the scientific method. Enhanced with fifty beautiful sepia-toned illustrations, The Science of Leonardo is a fresh and important portrait of a colossal figure in the world of science and the arts.
Amazing collection of Scientific American Magazine's - 1993-1999 (all issues).
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Dark Energy Does it really exist? Or does Earth occupy a very unusual place in the universe? Also in this issue: • Color Vision: Our Eyes Reflect Primate Evolution • Green Lasers: The Next Innovation in Chip-Based Beams • Soldiers' Stress: What Doctors Get Wrong about PTSD • Virus Watch: Preventing the Next Pandemic • Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees
This text presents a neurocognitive model of dreams that draws from empirical research to explain better the process of dreaming and the nature of dream content.
Examining the scientific ideas developed by the early Greek philosophers, the developments of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and the momentous discoveries of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century, this volume looks at the early years of scientific thought and discovery. Covering figures as well known as Aristotle and Newton, The Birth of Science: Ancient Times to 1699 also looks beyond the specific contributions of key individuals and offers a more inclusive, world view of the early days of science.
