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Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind
Book by Charles Nicholl
Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind is a 2004 biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Charles Nicholl.
Description
The book researches the life of Leonardo da Vinci in Tuscane and explores the reasons of his historic success.[1][2] The author's main observation is that most of Leonardo's work was unfinished.
Through a thorough research, the author dismisses most of the romanticized facts about da Vinci and concludes that a lot is unknown about the genius inventor.[3] Leonardo is described as an engineer obsessed with natural designs.[4]Washington Post writer Alexander Nagel criticized Nicholl's technical analysis of the inventor's paintings that lack insight and misses an opportunity to push deeper into the mind of Leonardo.[5]
The author retranslates many of Leonardo's mirrorscript writings.[6] Some guesswork is admittedly thrown in this biogra