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The Artist, The Genius, The Legend Leonardo da Vinci’s legacy is everywhere: from bridges to helicopters, fashion to fiction, flying machines, human anatomy, not to mention some of the most compelling artworks ever created by man. Leonardo da Vinci was centuries ahead of his time, a visionary and innovator turned international icon. Fueled by his limitless desire for knowledge, Leonardo made groundbreaking advancements that still influence and inform our world today. In Leonardo: Insatiable Curiosity , historian and philosopher Justin Smith traces the artistic drives of the quintessential Renaissance thinker, captures a glimpse into the man behind the genius, and pays tribute to a life without which the word curiosity would have never found its real-life representative.

Полный вариант заголовка: «The fatal curiosity : a tragedy / by Mr. George Lillo ; adapted for theatrical representation, as originally acted at the Theatre-Royal, Hay-Market ; regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the manager».

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Alex Raynham. What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly?' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?' All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a river…

Роман Чарльза Дикенса «Лавка древностей» – это история о молодой девушке Нелли и ее деде, отправляющихся бродяжничать по дорогам викторианской Англии. На пути они встретят множество людей: как отзывчивых и готовых помочь путникам, так и тех, кто с пренебрежением пройдет мимо. Для удобства читателя текст сопровождается комментариями и кратким словарем. Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень 4 – Upper-Intermediate).