![]() He wanted to know everything about the world, and how we fit into it. He wanted to know how to portray motion and emotion in a painting, how to divert a river, how fast birds flap their wings, why water swirled the way it did and why do we see the same swirl in a curl of hair, and his curiosity drove him to poke around in cadavers to see how the muscles and nerves connected, and to study a city's canal system so he could understand water engineering. Leonardo's lists, like the notebooks he wrote in equally compulsively all his adult life, are a record of the breadth and depth of this man's extraordinary mind. The AFR has an exclusive extract from Water Isaacson's Leonardo da Vinci: Two Battlers of Florence. "Describe the tongue of the woodpecker," he orders himself another day. As biographer Walter Isaacson writes of his subject in his new book, Leonardo da Vinci, the man was insatiable. ![]()
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