Image from page 70 of "Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;" (1898)

Identifier: leonardodavincia02mn.Title: Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidleonardodavincia02mn ) .Year: 1898 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1898 ) (1890s ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1890 ) ).Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorM__ntz__Eug__ne__1845_1902 ) .Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectLeonardo__da_Vinci__1452_1519 ) .Publisher: London : W. Heinemann ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___W__Heinemann ) New York, C. Scribner's sons ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisher_New_York__C__Scribner_s_sons ) .Contributing Library: University of California Libraries ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries ) .Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorInternet_Archive ) ...View Book Page: Book Viewer ( stream/leonardodavincia02mn/leonardodavincia02mn#page/n70/mode/1up ) .About This Book: Catalog Entry ( details/leonardodavincia02mn ) .View All Images: All Images From Book ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidleonardodavincia02mn ) ..Click here to view book online ( stream/leonardodavincia02mn/leonardodavincia02mn#page/n70/mode/1up ) to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book....Text Appearing Before Image:.solution of the laws ofchiaroscuro, and brown tonalities, to the detriment of that splendourof colour revealed by the Venetians. Before describing Leonardos method of work and a few of hisdiscoveries—to enumerate them all would be impossible—it is advisableto inquire how he set about his work, and how he contrived to master,in so remarkable a degree, the boundless domain of mathematical,physical, and natural science. All evidence is unanimous in .showing that as a child he had rivers, of proportions, of geometry, of mills, of waters, of metals, of the military art, ofreligious architecture, etc. On this manuscript—falsely attributed first to Francesco diGiorgio Martini and afterwards to Da Vinci himself—Leonardo has written a few notes-It is really a comi)ilation from the works of L. B. Alberti (Mancini, di un Codicc . . . conalcuni liuordi lUitugraji dt Leonardo da Vinci, Lirenze, 1885). IlII MAN OK SCIENCE 49 a gift for the exact sciences. I lis entry into Vcrrocchios studio..Text Appearing After Image:..f Cm ■ .«««1}/.r. «T-^.n-D^^ ^Jf,^,.,.^ - -I ■-• » II - • -M W»TT If ■ — -K. nA^i I f*^ ANATOMICAL SKETCHRS. DATED 151O. (Windsor Libiary. confirmed these tastes, which, in him, were combined with an irre-sistible vocation for art. We know that Verrocchio was a passionate VOL. II. H 50 LEONARDO DA VINCI student of geometry and perspective, but whatever he may havedone for his pupil, we know the latter was above all things theson of his works. It is not even certain that, at this time, Verrocchiohad seriously embarked on scientific experiments. Florentine culture,so pre-eminent in matters of art and literature, had not yet reached alike superiority in the domain of science. Attached to the doctrinesof Plato, of which the Medici were adherents, and to which theirprotégé, Marsilio Ficino, had given new life, the Florentine looked forbeauty rather than for truth ; and even when he made the latterhis aim, his preference was given to absolute laws, such as thoseof mathe.