Wallace Robert. The World of Leonardo 1452 -1519

New York: Time Ink., 1967. — 200 p.Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo , was an Italian polymathwhose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music,mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, andcartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, his genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.