Leonardo da Vinci -- Early life -- Painting and sculpture -- Into the dark -- The great inventor -- Leonardo's city -- A time of war -- The entertainer -- Man of mystery -- Leaving -- A man who questioned everything.
All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions: "What does the world look like from the moon?" "How do our bodies work?" "Is it possible for people to fly?" "Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?" "How can we have cleaner cities?" He was a great artist, and also one of the great thinkers of all time. Even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a river... -- adapted from back cover.
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Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 --Juvenile literature. Leonardo. Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.