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Introduction
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Leonardo's inventing by sketching
Sonic mapping in Leonardo's disegni
Bridges, Maps, and Scaffolds
Leonardo's mobile bridges
Leonardo da Vinci and mapmaking
Scaffolds and Centerings: The Representation of Temporary Architecture
Anatomy, Religion, and Humanism
On bended knee: The anatomy of devotion
Leonardo da Vinci: Art, anatomy and humanism
Leonardo's Great Lady: Between life, death and resurrection
Nature, Animals, and Philosophy
Perfecting nature: Empiricism, geometry and the rhetoric of liveliness in Leonardo’s Studies of Brambles, c. 1505-10
Leonardo's mountains
Leonardo's animals
Leonardo and the whale
Leonardo’s transformations of nature
On the nature of Leonardo’s things: Lightning and “the sea monster”
Leonardo, Lucretius and the end of all things
Optics and Art
Leonardo’s Virgin of the Annunciation
Leonardo's Annunciation in perspective
Leonardo's Battles of the Eye
Leonardo's early grotesque head
Leonardo and Pliny
The Mystery of Leonardo's Self-portraits
Leonardo and the interpretation of paintings
Leonardo's color in the early 20th century
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