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2014

Format:	Book
Author:	Shlain, Leonard, author.
Title:	Leonardo's brain : understanding da Vinci's creative genius / Leonard Shlain.
Publisher, Date:	Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman Littlefield, [2014] ©2014
Description:	xiv, 225 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm
Summary:	"Explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Knowledge and learning. Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Psychology. Gifted persons -- Italy -- Biography.
Genre:	Biographies.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Art/Science -- Medicis/Popes -- Milan/Vatican -- Mind/Brain -- Leonardo/Renaissance Art -- Renaissance Art/Modern Art -- Duchamp/Leonardo -- Leonardo the Trickster -- Creativity -- Fear, Lust, and Beauty -- Leonardo/Theories -- Leonardo/Inventions -- Emotions/Memory -- Space and Time/Space-Time -- Leonardo/Remote Viewing -- Leonardo's Brain -- Leonardo/Asynchrony -- Evolution/Extinction.
LCCN:	2014027222
ISBN:	9781493003358 1493003356 9781493009398 1493009397
Other Number:	871192383
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Control Number:	462684
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Call Number:	709.2 Leonardo

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