LEONARDO

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Born Wrong
3. Chapter Two - Florence and Fire
4. Chapter Three - Lines and Light
5. Chapter Four - Dreams of Flight
6. Chapter Five - The Anatomy of God
7. Chapter Six - Engineering the Impossible
8. Chapter Seven - The Milanese Years
9. Chapter Eight - The Obsession with Perfection
10. Chapter Nine - The Notebook God
11. Chapter Ten - Science Without a Name
12. Chapter Eleven - Mirror Brain
13. Chapter Twelve - The Renaissance Isn’t Big Enough
14. Chapter Thirteen - Lisa
15. Chapter Fourteen - France and Final Years
16. Chapter Fifteen - Legacy of the Unfinished
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Prototype Human
18. Chapter Seventeen - The Mind That Time Forgot

Excerpt

PROLOGUE LEONARDO DA VINCI didn’t belong to the 15th century. He barely belonged to Earth. This was a man born out of wedlock, raised in the hills of Tuscany, trained in the messy workshops of Florence, and somehow, he cracked open the future like it was already written down. He painted with godlike precision, engineered machines that wouldn’t exist for centuries, and peeled back the layers of the human body just to see how it worked. Then he kept going. Da Vinci wasn’t a painter. He wasn’t an engineer. He wasn’t an anatomist, sculptor, cartographer, or physicist. He was all of them. At once. Without hesitation. And without boundaries. He painted the most famous face on the planet. He...