Caterina Sforza's Gli Experimenti - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caterina Sforza's Gli Experimenti write by Gigi Coulson. This book was released on 2016-10-22. Caterina Sforza's Gli Experimenti available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Renaissance beauty products and herbal medicines were made in the workshops of monasteries, still rooms of homes large and small, or by alchemists in their storefronts. These arts were part of traditions handed down from Arab, Roman, Greek, and Turkish cultures. Every family had its own book of secrets (Libretti di Secreti, Tesori, Tesoretti) where they recorded successful iterations of their personal recipes for cosmetics, medicines, and household products such as dyes, candles, pesticides, etc. One example of this type of book is Caterina Sforza's alchemical, medical experiment, and recipe collection titled "Gli Experimenti de la Ex.ma S.r Caterina da Furlj Matre de lo inllux.mo S.r Giouanni de Medici", or "Gli Experimenti". In this book Gigi Coulson has translated 24 of Caterina's beauty recipes into modern English for the benefit of those wanting to try their hand at creating them in their own still rooms.
Daughters of Alchemy
Daughters of Alchemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daughters of Alchemy write by Meredith K. Ray. This book was released on 2015-04-06. Daughters of Alchemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women’s intellectual equality to men.
Conciatore
Conciatore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conciatore write by Heiden & Engle. This book was released on 2014-12-21. Conciatore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A History of Milan Under the Sforza
A History of Milan Under the Sforza - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Milan Under the Sforza write by Cecilia Mary Ady. This book was released on 1907. A History of Milan Under the Sforza available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leonardo da Vinci write by Walter Isaacson. This book was released on 2017-10-17. Leonardo da Vinci available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius. In the “luminous” (Daily Beast) Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson describes how Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci “comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, insightful portrait” (The Washington Post).
