LEONARDO DA VINCI

Artist, Thinker, and Man of Science

FROM THE FRENCH OF

EUGÈNE MÜNTZ

=

MEMBER OF THE INSTITUT DE FRANCE

KEEPER OF THE COLLECTIONS IN THE ÉCOLE DES BEAUX ARTS

With Forty-eight Plates, and Two Hundred and Fifty-two Text Illustrations

MDCCCXCVIII

RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED,

LONDON AND BUNGAY.

THE SAVANT-DID THE STUDY OF ANTIQUITY DELAY THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE?

-WAS LEONARDO A MAGIAN?-HIS SCIENTIFIC METHODS-HIS WORK AS A

MATHEMATICIAN-STUDIES IN PHYSICS-INVENTION OF THE CAMERA OBSCURA—

RESEARCHES IN NATURAL HISTORY-LEONARDO AS ENGINEER AND MECHANI-

CIAN

CHAPTER IV

THE DOWNFALL OF LODOVICO IL MORO-LOUIS XII. AT MILAN-LEONARDO'S

JOURNEYS TO MANTUA AND VENICE-HIS RELATIONS WITH THE MARCHESA
ISABELLA D'ESTE-HE ENTERS THE SERVICE OF CESAR BORGIA-HE RETURNS
TO FLORENCE-THE "SAINT ANNE.".

CHAPTER VI

THE MONA LISA AND LEONARDO'S FEMALE PORTRAITS-THE NEPTUNE"-THE
"LEDA "-DEPARTURE FROM FLORENCE

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105-132

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