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“The Leonardo Museum in Vinci”: http://www.leonet.it/comuni/vincimus/invinmus.html

“Leonardo”: National Museum of Science and Technology, Milan: http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/ (includes one hundred drawings of inventions and machines)

INDEX

abacus

Adoration of the Magi (painting)

aerodynamics

Alberti, Leon Battista

alchemy

algebra

Alhazen

anatomy,

artists’ knowledge of,

Leonardo’s study of

see also dissection

animals

anonymous accusations

anti-Semitism

apprentices

Arabic numbers

Arabic scholars

Archimedes

architecture

Aristotelian logic

Aristotle

army, career in

Arno River

art, career in

arteriosclerosis

artistic training,

Leonardo’s

arthritis

astrology

astronomy

autopsies

Bacon, Roger

Belvedere Palace

Bible

bicycle, invention of

birds

Black Death

epidemic of

cause

blood

Bonaparte, Napoleon

book publishing

books

censorship and

printed

Borgia, Cesare

botany

brain structure

Bramante, Donato

British Museum

bronze horse, statue

Brunelleschi, Filippo

bubonic plague, see Black Death

buchi della Verità

Cardan, Fazio

Caterina (mother of Leonardo)

censorship

chemistry in artists’ studios

China

Church, Catholic

circulation of the blood

cities, conditions

city planning

city-states

classical learning

Clos Lucé

Codex Arundel

Codex Ashburnham

Codex Atlanticus

Codex Forster

Codex Leicester

Codex “On the Flight of Birds,”

Codex Trivulzianus

Codices of the Institut de France

Columbus, Christopher

comets

contagion

Copernicus, Nicolaus

da Vinci, Francesco

da Vinci, Leonardo

appearance

arrested

childhood

collections

curiosity of

death of

early biographies of

household of

isolation

lack of focus

need for privacy

old age

personality

secretiveness

sex life of

da Vinci, Piero

deformity, fascination with

depression

diet

digestive process

disease

dissection

methods of

Divina Proportione

doctors

drawings

techniques

Earth, position of

education

Classical, lack of

formal

self-education

encyclopedias

energy, search for new sources of

engineer-architect

erosion

Euclid

experimentation

Leonardo’s experiments

explorers

eye, structure of

famine

Fazio, Cardan

Feast of Paradise

flight, study of

Florence

Florentine painters’ guild

flying machines

fossils

theories of

France

Francis I, King of France

Freud, Sigmund

Galen

Galileo

Gates, Bill

geography

geology

geometry

Giotto

glasses

Greece

Gutenberg, Johannes

Harvey, William

health, rules for

heart, theories of

helicopter, invention of

heredity, theory of

Hippocrates

history of science

homosexuality

humors, theory of

Huygens, Christian

hydraulics

Icarus

illegitimacy

income

indulgences

influence of Leonardo on other scientists

inheritance

inventions

Islamic scholars

Italian, as “vulgar tongue,”

Italy

jokes

knowledge, unifying theories and principles of

Last Supper, The (painting)

Latin

Laws of Motion

left-handedness

Leo X, Pope

Leoni, Pompeo

lever, invention of

libraries

life expectancy

light, theories of

linear perspective

literacy

Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, The

Louis XII, King of France

Luther, Martin

Lyell, Charles

Machiavelli, Niccolò

Madrid Codices, The

manuscripts

maps

Masque of the Planets

mathematics

Leonardo’s limited knowledge of

mechanical devices

medical training

Medici

Medici, Lorenzo de’ (the Magnificent)

medicine, medieval

Renaissance

medieval worldview

Melzi, Francesco

Melzi, Orazio

Michelangelo

Microsoft

Middle Ages, life in

Milan

military engineer

mirror-image script

Mona Lisa (painting)

moon

mortality rates

musical ability

natural philosopher (term)

nature, direct study of

Newton, Isaac

“New World,”

Nostradamus

notary

notebooks, Leonardo’s

arrangement of

described

fate of

publication

readership of

see also under individual codex names

observation skills

Office of the Night

On Floating Bodies

On the Revolutions of Celestial