Leonardo da Vinci / by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Boris Kulikov

By:

Krull, Kathleen

Contributor(s):

Kulikov, Boris, 1966- [illustrator]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: New York : Scholastic, 2005Edition: First Scholastic printing, February 2007Description: 124 pages : illustrations ; 20cmISBN:

067005920X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780545003728

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

509/.2 22

LOC classification:

Q143 .L5 K78 2005

Contents:

Summary: For 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Footprints International School Library Network Toul Kork Campus TTP Secondary Non-Fiction Bookshelves	Non-Fiction	KRU 509/.2 Q143 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	FISSE01466

For 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.

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