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in 1966 were they found once more, in the National Library of Madrid, Spain. The two manuscripts, bound in red leather, were named Madrid I (mostly on mechanics) and Madrid II (geometry).

A POSTSCRIPT

To better explain Leonardo da Vinci’s contributions to science, this book has left out many details of his fabulous career as an artist. Visit your library for other books about him and his place in art history.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS

(* books especially for young readers)

Bambach, Carmen C., ed . Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.

Bortolon, Liana. The Life, Times, and Art of Leonardo. New York: Crescent, 1965.

Bramly, Serge. Leonardo: The Artist and the Man. New York: Penguin, 1994. [For an assortment of reasons, writers have put a lot of imagination into telling the story of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the most reliable facts are reported here.]

Brucker, Gene. Florence, the Golden Age, 1138-1737. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

*Byrd, Robert. Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer. New York: Dutton, 2003.

Desmond, Michael, and Carlo Pedretti. Leonardo da Vinci: The Codex Leicester—Notebook of a Genius. Sydney, Australia: Powerhouse Publishing, 2000.

Fairbrother, Trevor, and Chiyo Ishikawa. Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo da Vinci’s Legacy of Art and Science. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1997.

Freud, Sigmund, Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality. New York: Random House, 1947.

Gelb, Michael J. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. New York: Random House, 1998.

Grant, Edward. The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

*Langley, Andrew. Leonardo and His Times. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.

Leonardo da Vinci. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, compiled and edited from the original manuscripts by Jean Paul Richter (an unabridged edition of The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, 1883), in two volumes. New York: Dover Publications, 1970.

Leonardo da Vinci. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, compiled and edited by Edward MacCurdy. Old Saybrook, Connecticut: Konecky & Konecky, 1939.

Lindberg, David C. The Beginnings of Western Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Lindberg, David C. Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Manchester, William. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Nuland, Sherwin B. Leonardo da Vinci: A Penguin Life. New York: Viking, 2000.

Rocke, Michael. Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Siraisi, Nancy G. Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

White, Michael. Leonardo: The First Scientist. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.

WEB SITES

(Verified May 2008)

“Leonardo and the Engineers of the Renaissance,” Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence, Italy: http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/ingrin (includes his robots and flying machines, pages from Codex Atlanticus and several other Notebooks)

“Leonardo da Vinci: A Man of Both Worlds”: http://library.thinkquest.org/3044/index.html (includes 42 scientific drawings)

“Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman,” exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, 2003: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Leonardo_Master_Draftsman/draftsman_tour.htm

“Leonardo da Vinci Notebook—Turning the Pages at the British Library”: http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation.html#leo (pages from Codex Arundel)

“Leonardo da Vinci—Scientist—Inventor—Artist,” Museum of Science, Boston: http://www.mos.org/leonardo/ (has classroom activities)

“Leonardo’s Codex Leicester: A Masterpiece of Science,” exhibit at the