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Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were practically unknown during his lifetime, despite their terribly wide selection. He studied the flight patterns of birds to produce a few of the first human traveling devices; developed military tools and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the functions of the human circulatory system; and produced models for repairing Milan, using concepts nevertheless utilized by town planners today. Possibly most of all, Leonardo developed an empirical, methodical approach for the observation of character-what's recognized today whilst the scientific method.Drawing on more than 6,000 pages of Leonardo's enduring laptops, recommended scientist and best-selling author Fritjof Capra shows Leonardo's creative approach to scientific understanding and his natural and environmental worldview. Within this intriguing face of the thinker generations in front of his time, Leonardo primarily exists whilst the unacknowledged “father of contemporary science.”