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Author
Series
Publisher
Campfire/Kalyani Navyug Media Pvt. Ltd
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer, Leonardo da Vinci was a genius who was well ahead of his time and the best example of the Renaissance man. This is the story of one of the greatest painters of all time, and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived"--bn.com.
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"The story of the ... Italian artist, sculptor, architect and engineer ... Leonardo's legacy to the world came in ... many forms; in the breathtaking beauty of the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa; his rich collection of drawing[s]; the mirror-written notebooks containing original thoughts on astronomy, biology and physiology ..."--Container label.
5) Leonardo
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A latest entry in the best-selling picture book biography series blends conversational text and friendly artwork in an introduction to the life of Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci that explores how hard work and new ways of thinking inspired his remarkable achievements."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a boy, Marconi loved science and invention. Born in 1874 in Bologna, Italy, to a wealthy family, Marconi grew up surrounded by books in his father's library. He was fascinated with radio waves and learned Morse code, the language of the telegraph. A retired telegraph operator taught him how to tap messages on the telegraph machine. At the age of twenty, Marconi realized that no one had invented a wireless telegraph. Determined to find a way to...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships could now make contact with other ships (saving lives, such as on the doomed R.M.S. Titanic); financial markets could coordinate with other financial markets, establishing the...
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