Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester. Volume II, Interpretive essays and the history of the Codex Leicester / Domenico Laurenza and Martin Kemp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laurenza, Domenico, author.

Kemp, Martin, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarly editions online.

Oxford scholarly editions online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Codex Leicester.

Leonardo.

Science--Early works to 1800.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages, 4 pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

Edition:

New edition.

Other Title:

Interpretive essays and the history of the Codex Leicester

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This new edition of Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester is the most comprehensive scholarly edition of any of Leonardo's manuscripts. It contains a high-quality facsimile reproduction of the Codex, a new transcription and translation, accompanied by a paraphrase in modern language and a page-by-page commentary, and a series of interpretative essays. It introduces important new research into the interpretation of the texts and images, on the setting of Leonardo's ideas in the context of ancient and medieval theories, and into the notable fortunes of the Codex within the sciences of astronomy, water, and the history of the earth, opening a new field of research into the impact of Leonardo as a scientist.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191913747