Title
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
6-17-2019
Department 1
Biology
Abstract
Around 1480, when he was 28 years old, Leonardo da Vinci recorded what may have been a seminal event in his life. In writing of his travels to view nature he recounted an experience in a cave in the Tuscan countryside:
Having wandered for some distance among overhanging rocks, I can to the entrance of a great cavern... [and after some hesitation I entered] drawn by a desire to see whether there might be any marvelous thing within..."
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Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
DOI
10.1163/9789004398443_006
ISBN/ISSN
9789004398443
Version
Pre-print
Recommended Citation
Etheridge, Kay. "Leonardo and the Whale." In Leonardo da Vinci – Nature and Architecture, edited by C. Moffat and S.Taglialagamba, 89-106. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Required Publisher's Statement
The entire work is available on the publisher's website: https://brill.com/view/title/54285?rskey=VrmFXY&result=9
Included in
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Comments
Please note that that this is pre-print version of the article and has not yet been peer-reviewed. For the final published version, please refer to the book on the publisher's website.