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• ISBN: 9780306818257 (hc)
• ISBN: 9780306820083 (pbk.) :
• Physical Description: viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.print
• Edition: First Da Capo Press edition
• Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, c2010.
• General Note: Translated from the German.Originally published: Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, 2008.Translation of: Vermächtnis, oder, Wie Leonardo die Welt neu erfand.
• Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Formatted Contents Note: The mystery of the ten thousand pages -- The gaze. The artist as neuroscientist ; Noses from the construction kit ; Pyramidal law ; In the library of Her Majesty ; "How the scintillation of each star originates in the eye" -- Water. Remains of a lock ; Seeking employment from the tyrant ; Love nest in the mill ; Leonardo becomes a writer ; Water music ; Single file through an alley -- War. The physics of destruction ; Amorra, Ilopanna ; Pact with the devil ; Strangled at dawn ; The beast within man -- The dream of flying. Alone against gravity ; "Board up the large room above-- " ; "Leonardo complicated matters" ; The intrepid Judy Leden ; Flying does not mean flapping wings -- Robots. Handbags and water heaters ; The performance of the mechanical lion ; A life for Leonardo ; The bell ringer ; Leonardo's computer -- Under the skin. In the mortuaries of Santa Maria Nuova ; An x-ray view of sex ; Man is a machine ; Expeditions into the beating heart ; "A philosopher more than a Christian" -- Final questions. Shells on the mountain slope ; "How admirable Thy justice, O though first mover!" ; The soul of the fetus ; Visions of the end of the world -- The legacy.

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