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A review by bupdaddy
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
4.0
da Vinci sure was smart.
Isaacson does a good job of making him a real person - his reputation makes him almost like the hero in a steampunk Renaissance Italy. He had faults. He made mistakes. He procrastinated. If you google "da Vinci inventions still in use today" you mostly get stuff he imagined but never made. That's like saying Jules Verne invented submarines or Lucian invented the spaceship. He had one great invention - the ball bearing.
Still, he revolutionized painting, pushed anatomy ahead by leaps and bounds, and realized a lot of things nobody else would for...sometimes centuries. So he was brilliant.
So the book - like I said, Isaacson does a good job making him real - really brilliant, but also a mortal imperfect human. Great read.
Isaacson does a good job of making him a real person - his reputation makes him almost like the hero in a steampunk Renaissance Italy. He had faults. He made mistakes. He procrastinated. If you google "da Vinci inventions still in use today" you mostly get stuff he imagined but never made. That's like saying Jules Verne invented submarines or Lucian invented the spaceship. He had one great invention - the ball bearing.
Still, he revolutionized painting, pushed anatomy ahead by leaps and bounds, and realized a lot of things nobody else would for...sometimes centuries. So he was brilliant.
So the book - like I said, Isaacson does a good job making him real - really brilliant, but also a mortal imperfect human. Great read.