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Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols.
“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times
“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.”...
“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times
“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.”...
Author
Publisher
The Viking press
Pub. Date
1959
Physical Desc
143 pages
Language
English
Description
Painter,sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, scientist--these are the accomplishments not of six men but of one man of genius: Leonardo da Vinci. As an artist he inherited the excellencies of the past and perfected them.His scientific work was no less extraordinary. The fore-runner of Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Harvey and James Watt,Leonard foretold what each would one day discover.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.
5) Leonardo
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1978
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 344 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In their latest time travel adventure, Fred, Joe, and Sam meet Leonardo da Vinci and try to avoid becoming toilet scrubbers in a sixteenth-century Italian army.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Destruction was not his design. After a long and disastrous personal quest, it's a slow, painful rebirth for Leonardo Da Vinci as he comes to the realization that his greatest enemy is himself. After travelling from Florence to South America and back in his relentless search for the fabled Book of Leaves, Florence is in ruins and dear friends have recently been buried. Da Vinci now must rebuild himself, as well as his beloved city, just as the Turks...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the tradition of Galileo's Daughter and Brunelleschi's Dome, this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance-in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy-through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly unconventional doctor. Fioravanti's marvelous cures and talent for self-aggrandizement earned him the adoration of the people, the scorn of the medical establishment,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
France, 1939. At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, a young archivist employed at the Louvre, arrives home to find her brother missing. While she works to discover his whereabouts, refugees begin flooding into Paris and German artillery fire rattles the city. Once they reach Paris, the Nazis will stop at nothing to get their hands on the Louvre's art collection. Anne is quickly sent to the Castle of Chambord, where the Louvre's most precious...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. Leonardo Da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing, but Da Vinci's genius prevails and he emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of darkness and propels it into light.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 548 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Florence is thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. When the dust settles, friends are buried and rivalries are enflamed. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book of Leaves and uncover the secret history of his mother. He'll come to realize...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
2-disc widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 149 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a chase...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills...
17) Leonardo's horse
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[48] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates how two men born centuries apart had a common dream to create a giant horse sculpture for Milan, Italy.
18) Da Vinci's tiger
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Young, beautiful, and witty, Ginevra de' Benci longs to take part in the artistic ferment of Renaissance Florence. But as the daughter of a wealthy family in a society dictated by men, she is trapped in an arranged marriage, expected to limit her creativity to domestic duties. Her poetry reveals her deepest feelings, and she aches to share her work, to meet painters and sculptors mentored by the famed Lorenzo de Medici, and to find love. When the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
[48] p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text portray the life of Leonardo da Vinci, who gained fame as a artist through such works as the Mona Lisa, and as a scientist by studying various subjects including human anatomy and flight.
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