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Was Leonardo a Chemist?
Author(s) -
Cintas Pedro
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3773(20000717)39:14<2449::aid-anie2449>3.0.co;2-g
Subject(s) - the renaissance , chemist , feature (linguistics) , art history , art , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry , linguistics
A retrospective view of Leonardo da Vinci highlights his achievements in chemistry, which have largely been ignored in favor of his artistic side. Leonardo was a pioneer of the inductive method establishing a direct dialogue between observation and experiment, an uncommon feature in the Renaissance.