The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, -Edited By Edward MacCurdy Options

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This is a definitive edition in one volume. (That's what the front cover says.)

It's a collection of all of Leonardo's notebooks, his thoughts and ideas and a few drawings. (There are very few actual drawings shown in this book, but the editor leaves notes as to where and what drawings were on the pages. There are also references to what he is commenting on if it’s another piece of work from another philosopher, and other tidbits of information. Everything is also numbered for reference.)
Leonardo was extremely interesting; reading his notebook is almost like getting to know him as a person. He was a deep thinker and filled with ideas about everything, and I do mean everything. Some of his notes may make you cry and feel, and all of his notes will make you think, whether it is for or against it.
If you like philosophy and if you don't mind reading a book with 1180 pages, then I recommend you read this one, (actually I recommend it even if you don’t. It would be for your own good to read it, especially if you're an artist. )

This piece of writing is among my favorites:
The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives, and it unites with it, and they become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of the union; if the thing that is loved be base, the lover becomes base. When the thing taken into union is in harmony with that which receives it, there follow rejoicing and pleasure and satisfaction. When the lover is united to that which is loved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest. The thing is known with our intellect. Tr. 9 a

Andrea
P.S.
If you would ask me to categorize it among other great works, I would have to place this along side the Bible, Qur’an, and other such works that should be read in the course of one’s own lifetime. It may not all seem true, but it’s a sheer brilliance of writing and thinking that may change another’s perception of life and our own world.


"He who does not value life does not deserve it." i 15 r.
-from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

This post has been edited by colibri23: May 9 2006, 11:22 PM