{"product_id":"2940170689002","title":"Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image","description":"Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da\u003cbr\u003e Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a \u003cbr\u003esquare. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeur \u003cbr\u003eof art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human \u003cbr\u003espirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on coffee \u003cbr\u003ecups, on corporate logos, even on spacecraft. It has, in short, become \u003cbr\u003ethe world's most famous cultural icon-and yet almost nobody knows about \u003cbr\u003ethe epic intellectual journeys that led to its creation. In this modest \u003cbr\u003edrawing that would one day paper the world, da Vinci attempted nothing \u003cbr\u003eless than to calibrate the harmonies of the universe and understand the \u003cbr\u003ecentral role man played in the cosmos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJournalist and storyteller\u003cbr\u003e Toby Lester brings \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eVitruvian Man\u003c\/span\u003e to life, resurrecting the ghost of an \u003cbr\u003eunknown Leonardo. Populated by a colorful cast of characters, including \u003cbr\u003eBrunelleschi of the famous Dome, \u003ci\u003eDa Vinci's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e opens up a \u003cbr\u003esurprising window onto the artist and philosopher himself and the \u003cbr\u003etumultuous intellectual and cultural transformations he bridged. With \u003cbr\u003esparkling prose, Lester \u003cbr\u003ecaptures the brief but momentous time in the history of western thought \u003cbr\u003ewhen the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance, art and science and \u003cbr\u003ephilosophy converged as one, and all seemed to hold out the promise that\u003cbr\u003e a single human mind, if properly harnessed, could grasp the nature of \u003cbr\u003eeverything.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150739980528,"sku":"2940170689002","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170689002_p0.jpg?v=1763811889","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170689002","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}