Walter Isaacson, University Professor of History at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman of CNN, and editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography. He is also the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.
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.
##Describe the tongue of a woodpecker!
評分##寫在前麵的玩笑:達芬奇也許是個假的白羊座男 他齣生於1452年4月15日。他美貌,優雅,喜歡華服,善於社交,聰明健談,遵從內心、專注內心。他社交纔能用於為自己尋求發展平颱,口纔為自己在應答和拒絕權貴中尋求平衡,遵從內心渴求找瞭男性伴侶,良好的修養和平和的態度使他總...
評分 評分 評分 評分##讀瞭Blinkist匯編版
評分##1、來自芬奇,是一名私生子,最大的遺憾是得不到足夠的父愛和沒上過學; 2、是公開的同性戀,一生未婚,沒有直屬血係的後代; 3、最喜歡的發型是捲發,最喜歡的臉型是雌雄莫辨; 4、最大的愛好是追求科學和解剖人體; 5、無傳統宗教信仰(達•芬奇密碼中寫達•芬奇是峋山隱...
評分##Sure, all the more reason to fuck around and procrastinate
評分##從他的畫作和筆記裡來看一個天纔的一生。把他對自然現象的琢磨和對繪畫技巧的實驗的畢生所學集大成到一幅濛娜麗莎上,再迴到一開頭的問題“啄木鳥的舌頭是什麼樣的”,用他的好奇心大開大閤貫穿全文。當然像我這種重點總是抓錯的人最後從書中得到最重要的信息就是,stay foolish, stay procrastinating (bushi 有聲書對於這種需要前前後後各種翻看圖像的書實在不太友好,希望有一天能收藏到實體書(或是去看真跡──啊羨慕作者能看到Vitruvian man的真跡嗚嗚嗚
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