01514cam a22002654a 4500001000500000005001700005020004000022020001800062040002300080050002300103082001500126100002000141245007400161250004500235260003400280300003900314490002200353505000700375520069000382521001801072521001701090650005501107650004701162700003901209270220240110132154.0  a067005920X (hardcover : alk. paper)  a9780545003728  aDLCcDLCdDLCbeng00aQ143b.L5 K78 200500a509/.22221 aKrull, Kathleen10aLeonardo da Vinci /cby Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Boris Kulikov  aFirst Scholastic printing, February 2007  aNew York :bScholastic,c2005  a124 pages :billustrations ;c20cm1 aGiants of science0 aZ   aFor more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect human corpses, so he did autopsies in secret, even devising a clever way to slice through eyeballs (notoriously squishy!). Scrupulously researched and juicily anecdotal, Kathleen Krull's portrait of Leonardo will not only change children's ideas of who he was, but also what it means to be a scientist.  a1010 bLexile  aZ bRaz-Plus 0aScientistszItalyvBiographyvJuvenile literature. 0aScience, RenaissancevJuvenile literature.1 aKulikov, Borisd1966-eillustrator