19+ Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson Pictures. There is a significant difference, though, between leonardo da vinci and isaacson's previous biographies. Leonardo da vinci is an outstanding biography of perhaps the greatest genius of all time.

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Isaacson explains how da vinci's life story can inform our thinking today about innovation and technology. His combination of science, art, technology, and imagination remains an enduring recipe for. As walter isaacson notes in his biography of the artist, leonardo had the good luck to be born out of wedlock.

Because walter isaacson has made a cottage industry of writing about renaissance men, it's no surprise, really, that he's finally landed on a subject from the actual renaissance.

Isaacson's premise is that leonardo's scientific interests. Florentine notary, father of leonardo, did not marry leonardo's mother, subsequently had eleven other children with four wives. Otherwise, he would have been expected to become a notary, like the firstborn legitimate sons in his family stretching back at least five generations. Isaacson's premise is that leonardo's scientific interests.