Il cervello di Leonardo. Ritratto non ortodosso del più grande genio della storia
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Leonardo da Vinci è universalmente considerato l'archetipo del genio: pittore, inventore, ingegnere, scienziato, nonché incarnazione dell'Uomo rinascimentale. Insuperato non solo per quanto realizzò in campi tanto diversi e numerosi, ma anche per le prospettive che ha aperto ai posteri. Questo libro è un'indagine su come "funzionava" la sua mente eccezionale e ne spiega l'unicità a partire dai più recenti studi sulla specializzazione dei due emisferi cerebrali: le geniali innovazioni e gli straordinari successi raggiunti da Leonardo vengono dunque reinterpretati attraverso l'ottica delle neuroscienze. Ricorrendo anche agli appunti dello stesso Leonardo e alle testimonianze dei suoi contemporanei, l'autore lo ritrae come un personaggio storico davvero singolare, ma allo stesso tempo lo considera un modello da cui partire per esplorare i nostri processi creativi e cognitivi. Con uno stile chiaro e una godibile capacità di rappresentare inediti collegamenti tra ambiti in apparenza lontani, Shlain arriva a proporre affascinanti ipotesi sia sulle potenzialità della nostra mente sia sul futuro della specie umana.
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- Pagine: 285
- Data di uscita: 10-11-2016
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I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads. Leonardo's Brain: Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius opens in perhaps the saddest way. In the "Note to Reader," the author's children inform us how Leonard Shlain , while in the middle of writing this book, was diagnosed with cancer. H Leggi tutto
I was enjoying this book until I got to chapter 15 that proposes that da Vinci might have had ESP powers and been a remote viewer. The author is not a scientist and it shows with the pseudo-scientific studies he cites for his claim that remote viewing exists. That really killed my enjoyment of the b Leggi tutto
Leonardo da Vinci, possibly this world's greatest polymath, is the focus of Leonard Shlain's one of a kind biography on this one of a kind man. The focus - what made his unique brain work? Shlain explores the life, art and mind of da Vinci, seeking to explain what made his brain work by looking at hi Leggi tutto
***Disclaimer: I received this book as part of a first-reads giveaway*** This book was well written and well researched. Leonard Shlain definitely presents something for both those interested in modern science (especially neuroscience) and for the history buffs. Although in a few places his argument Leggi tutto
Leonard Shlain is extremely popular but not that widely known. His lectures were standing room only and his former books like Art and Physics are amazing. Yet this was his masterpiece as he worked on it for years. As a brain surgeon, he knew what he was writing about as he studied Leonardo as no one Leggi tutto
I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads. FTC guidelines: check! Leonard Schlain has written a comprehensive tome that looks at Leonardo da Vinci from the perspective of a brain surgeon and neuroscientist. This book is as complicated as the man it examines, being part informa Leggi tutto
My book club decided to give people a choice of this book (Leonardo's Brain) and Walter Isaacson's Leonardo Da Vinci . I decided to read both which was an interesting exercise. This book was okay, barely. In the preface, we learn that in the middle of writing this book, the author was diagnosed with Leggi tutto
It was very interesting. I learned how many things originated with LD and how they were expanded on and given credit to others.
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