Discover the extraordinary life and ideas of Leonardo da Vinci with Biographic: Leonardo, a visually engaging biography from the innovative Great Lives in Graphic Form series. Combining fascinating facts, infographics and visual storytelling, this book offers a fresh and entertaining look at the Renaissance master behind some of history''s most famous works.

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath and one of the greatest creative minds of the Italian Renaissance. Celebrated as a painter, inventor, engineer, scientist and thinker, Leonardo''s curiosity extended far beyond the world of art.

But there is much more to Leonardo than the masterpieces he created.

Biographic: Leonardo presents 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements from his extraordinary life in vivid visual snapshots. Discover fascinating details about his unusual approach to writing and drawing, his inventive mind and the remarkable ideas he developed centuries ahead of their time.

Among his many imaginative designs were concepts for an armoured vehicle, flying machine and contact lenses, showcasing the extraordinary breadth of his thinking and his fascination with how the world worked.

Through a quickfire combination of facts and infographics, this book reveals the curious mind, creative genius and visionary ideas behind one of history''s most celebrated figures.