Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Audiobook1 hour

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Written by Alex Raynham

    Narrated by Multiple Narrators

    3.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    'What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly?' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?' All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a river ...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Release dateJan 3, 2013
    ISBN9780194210263
    Leonardo Da Vinci

    More audiobooks from Alex Raynham

    Related to Leonardo Da Vinci

    Titles in the series (58)

    View More
    View More

    Related audiobooks

    ESL For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Rise Of The Machines

      Sep 30, 2021

      Rise Of The Machines
      1 min read

    • Article

      RECOMMENDED READ: Greasing The Wheels

      Aug 16, 2022

      AS WITH WHEELED suitcases, it’s perhaps surprising that bicycles, with their simple design, didn’t become part of human life sooner. After various primitive 19th-century versions had some limited appeal, it was only in the 1890s that the coming of th

      3 min read

    • Article

      Steve Nash

      Jul 1, 2019

      Steve Nash
      1 min read

    • Article

      Leonardo Da Vinci

      Feb 6, 2019

      Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, just outside of Florence in Italy on 15 April 1452. As a young man, da Vinci created his most audacious inventions during the seventeen years he worked for Duke Ludovico Sforza in Milan. What made Leonard da Vinci

      1 min read

    • Article

      Trivia

      Jun 22, 2021

      1. Underwater stuntwoman Katrin Gray opened the world’s first school for what kind of specialised swimming? 2. The 2019 UK hit song “Let Nature Sing” featured what type of wildlife to raise awareness of their endangerment? 3. Built in 1919, El Ateneo

      1 min read

    • Article

      What Is a Robot?

      Mar 22, 2016

      What Is a Robot?
      14 min read

    • Article

      Robots Revealed

      Feb 1, 2024

      Robots Revealed
      3 min read

    • Article

      From Dump To Don

      Aug 24, 2018

      From Dump To Don
      12 min read

    • Article

      Brain Gym

      Oct 6, 2022

      Brain Gym
      1 min read

    • Article

      Liberation Day

      Mar 16, 2020

      Out of 130 entries, Writer’s Digest editors and readers chose this winner, submitted by Bridget Young of Brecksville, Ohio. The screams finally stop as daylight fades away. I’ve gotten used to human laughter but never the cries of fear. A feeling of

      2 min read

    • Article

      End Of The Line

      Nov 17, 2021

      Daily commuting, as it has existed for most of the past 150 years, looks as if it will be one of the terminal victims of the pandemic. No more will hundreds of packed trains deposit workers in the morning and bring them back whence they came in the e

      3 min read

    • Article

      This Is The Modern World

      Jul 22, 2023

      This Is The Modern World
      5 min read

    • Article

      Trivia

      Dec 13, 2022

      1. What condiment was in short supply last year across France, despite being named after a French city? 2. The UK’s Norland College is known for training elite providers of what service? 3. How many cells do bacteria have? 4. Volunteers receive anest

      1 min read

    • Article

      Pedalling Squares

      Apr 2, 2020

      Pedalling Squares
      5 min read

    • Article

      Sketchbook Chase Curtis

      Jun 14, 2019

      Sketchbook Chase Curtis
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Twinnie Experience

      Jun 1, 2023

      The Twinnie Experience
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Citadel

      Jun 24, 2021

      The Citadel
      2 min read

    • Article

      Fuddy Duddy? Bloody Muddy!

      Mar 4, 2024

      Fuddy Duddy? Bloody Muddy!
      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Leonardo Da Vinci

    3.5/5

    47 ratings6 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Very informative and well read I learned that Da Vinci was more then just a painter
      also an engineer and great thinker and ahead of his time with his inventions and study
      of the human anatomy.
    • 5/5
      loved the way it has been narrated. I know what I wanted to know now. Thanks to scribd.
    • 3/5
      I knew next to nothing about the subject, and this book served moderately well as a short introduction. Nuland is most excited about our hero as a student of anatomy, which makes sense as Nuland is a medical doctor. There were interesting bits about the process of preserving the anatomy for dissection; we have it so easy now in biology class.
    • 4/5
      Good but brief look at a fascinating man. I knew he was an artist but I never realized the breadth of his curiosity and his genius.
    • 2/5
      Thin, short and not particularly compelling. I understand that there isn't much biographical information available, and I think Nuland gave it the old college try, but this just didn't work for me.
    • 2/5
      Not what it could have been. Nuland seems as much in thrall of Leonardo that he warns about early in this short biography. Apparently Leonardo was so ahead of his time that any "warts" in his life can be excused. Leonardo may have been the first to do a lot of things, including studies of the human body, but since he didn't finish his project to publish his work, virtually everything had to be rediscovered.Some of Nuland's personal views bleed through more than on more than a few pages.