![]() ![]() ![]() Leonardo has this figured out in 1510, but it wasn’t until 1960-the same decade as the first heart transplants-that cardiology rejected the traditional understanding that Leonardo had disproved 450 years earlier. There were so many bits of this book which will stick in mind for a long time (including the tongue of the woodpecker!) but I was perhaps most amazed by the description of Leonardo’s work on the mechanism of closure of the aortic valve. And yet, by the end of Isaacson’s book, I felt like I knew Leonardo. I had no idea that he was so reluctant to finish any project he was given. I had little idea how many different disciplines Leonardo held an interest in-I had no real idea of his contributions to the study of anatomy, maths, or engineering. Isaacson brought Leonardo to life as a complete, fascinating person. ![]() There are lots of biographies of Leonardo da Vinci this one, Walter Isaacson’s 2017 book based primarily around Leonardo’s notebooks, is the only one I’ve read. ![]()
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