Event Listing - Literary Arts

Tue Nov 6, 2007

Fritjof Capra

Author of The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance

Tel. 415-564-8080
Website

Location	Date and Time
Bookshop West Portal 80 West Portal Ave San Francisco, CA 94127 district: West Portal/Forest Hill	Tue Nov 6, 2007 (7 p.m.)

Description

Physicist and best-selling author Fritjof Capra
presents a detailed account of the scientific
achievements of Leonardo Da Vinci In The Science of
Leonardo: Inside the Great Mind of the Genius of the
Renaissance. Offering a radically new interpretation
of Da Vinci’s science, Capra evaluates the Renaissance
artist’s work from a 21st century scientific
perspective, illustrating how his science is highly
relevant to our time.

Fritjof Capra, Ph.D. is a physicist and systems
theorist. He is a founding director of the Center for
Ecoliteracy in Berkeley and author of five
international bestsellers, including The Tao of
Physics and Uncommon Wisdom.