Leonardo Da Vinci’s Notebooks, Separated for 400 Years, Have Been Reunited and Put Online

Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks, Separated for 400 Years, Have Been Reunited and Put Online

Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect, to provide only his most widely agreed-upon list of occupations. It is he, more than any other single figure, who comes to mind when we think of the ideal of the “Renaissance man.” Though considered rather less practical today than it was in fifteenth-century Italy, the relentless questing for both scientific knowledge and artistic perfection im…