Leonardo da Vinci Resources

Links to Leonardo Websites

Leonardo da Vinci as an Artist and a Scientist
Annotated list of links to other sites on Leonardo the artist and scientist

The Leonardo Museum in Vinci

Web Gallery of Art
Many images of Leonardo's drawings and paintings

Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence

Kim H. Veltman: Leonardo's Method
An extraordinary on-line essay

UC Berkeley
Leonardo's role in paleontology and evolutionary biology

Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
Thumbnails of Leonardo's sketches

WebMuseum, Paris
Focus on Leonardo's art

Leonardo's Links, Museum of Science

Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist
Museum of Science, Boston

Milestones in neuroscience research

Leonardo da Vinci books, videos and CD-ROM
Items for sale

Brain ventricles: our internal lake
by Silvia Helena Cardoso, PhD.

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Books on Leonardo's Brain Research

Many thousands of books have been written about Leonardo. Excellent biographies include:

• Clark, Kenneth (1988) Leonardo da Vinci, Penguin
• Kemp, Martin (1981) Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press
• Bramly, Serge (1995) Leonardo: the Artist and the Man, Penguin

Two biographies that focus on Leonardo's science are:

• Keele, Kenneth D. (1983) Leonardo da Vinci's Elements of the Science of Man, Academic Press
• Gillispie, Charles Coulston (ed.) "Leonardo da Vinci." Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970.

Other excellent books and articles describing Leonardo's anatomy include:

• McMurrich, J.P. (1930) Leonardo da Vinci the Anatomist (1452-1519), William & Wilkens
• O'Malley, C.D. and Saunders, J.B.deC.M. (1952) Leonardo da Vinci on the Human Body, Henry Schuman
• Clayton, M. and Philo, R. (1992) Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man, Bulfinch Press
• Belt, Elmer (1955) Leonardo the Anatomist. University of Kansas Press
• Roberts, Jane (1989) "An introduction to Leonardo's anatomical drawings" In: F. Ames-Lewis (ed.) Nine lectures on Leonardo da Vinci (University of London), pp. 53-62.
• Todd, Edwin M. (1983) The Neuroanatomy of Leonardo da Vinci. Santa Barbara: Capra Press
• Zubov, V.P. (1968) Leonardo da Vinci. David Kraus, transl. Harvard University Press

Leonardo's manuscripts have been published in facsimile, and a substantial number are available in English.The anatomical facsimiles include:

• Clark, K. and Pedretti, C. (1968) The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Phaidon
• Leonardo da Vinci (1978-1980) Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection of Her Majesty, the Queen, at Windsor Castle (Keele, K. and Pedretti, C. eds.), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Leonardo da Vinci (1898). I Manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci della reale biblioteca di Windsor. Dell'Anatomia. Fogli A. (T. Sabachnikoff, ed.), Rouveyre
• Leonardo da Vinci (1901). I Manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci della reale biblioteca di Windsor. Dell'Anatomia. Fogli B. (T. Sabachnikoff, ed.), Roux e Viarengo Editori
• Leonardo da Vinci (1911-1916). Quaderni d'Anatomia (I - VI) (Vangensten, O.C.L., Fonahn A., Hopstock, H., eds.), Christiania
• O'Malley, C.D. and Saunders, J.B.deC.M. (1952) Leonardo da Vinci on the Human Body, Henry Schuman

The standard anthologies of his writings include Richter (first edition, 1883) and MacCurdy:

• Richter, J.P. (1970) The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, Phaidon
• MacCurdy, E. (1938) The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. London: Jonathan Cape