作者：WalterIsaacson
出版社：Simon&Schuster
出版年：2017-10-17
页数：624
定价：USD35.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9781501139154
内容简介
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The #1 New York Times bestseller
“A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life…a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.” —The New Yorker
“Vigorous, insightful.” —The Washington Post
“A masterpiece.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Luminous.” —The Daily Beast
He was history’s most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us?
The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy.
He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius.
His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history’s most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo’s lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions.
Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.
作者简介
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Walter Isaacson, University Professor of History at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman of CNN, and editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography. He is also the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.
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达芬奇的好奇心
原本是要建个雕像, 他先解剖匹马去了解马的身体构造, 顺便对比下人腿和马腿的骨骼走向;又设计了几种可以有效清理马厩并填补饲料的系统; 还发明了一套能一口气把整匹马雕塑浇铸出来的模具和系统. 被这个人强大的好奇心和行动力震惊了;可不简单单是个画家啊. 只要他感兴趣的, 不论与原本主题沾多大边儿, 他都能兴致勃勃的一通钻研下去. 要说最可惜的一点, 就是leonardo从始至终都没有意识到人类的知识体…
Vegetarian
Became a strict vegetarian subsequently, because he discovered through observation that animals could feel pain like men did.
Curiosity | Observation | Patterns | Analogies
Repeated his …
Sure, all the more reason to fuck around and procrastinate
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