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Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester. Volume I, The codex / Domenico Laurenza & Martin Kemp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, author, artist.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarly editions online.
- Oxford scholarly editions online
- Standardized Title:
- Codex Leicester
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Early works to 1800.
- Science.
- Hydrodynamics--Early works to 1800.
- Hydrodynamics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (88 pages) : illustrations (colour).
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Other Title:
- Codex
- 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.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780191913730
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