{"product_id":"2940014427135","title":"The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci","description":"Excerpt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is scarcely necessary to add that most of the drawings here reproduced in facsimile have never been published before. As I am now, on the termination of a work of several years' duration, in a position to review the general tenour of Leonardos writings, I may perhaps be permitted to add a word as to my own estimate of the value of their contents. I have already shown that it is due to nothing but a fortuitous succession of unfortunate circumstances, that we should not, long since, have known Leonardo, not merely as a Painter, but as an Author, a Philosopher, and a Naturalist. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere can be no doubt that in more than one department his principles and discoveries were infinitely more in accord with the teachings of modern science, than with the views of his contemporaries. For this reason his extraordinary gifts and merits are far more likely to be appreciated in our own time than they could have been during the preceding centuries. He has been unjustly accused of having squandered his powers, by beginning a variety of studies and then, having hardly begun, throwing them aside. The truth is that the labours of three centuries have hardly sufficed for the elucidation of some of the problems which occupied his mighty mind.","brand":"Sheba Blake Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074129936624,"sku":"2940014427135","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014427135_p0.jpg?v=1763608010","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014427135","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}