This friendly guide provides an easy-to-follow introduction to Da Vinci' s life and works.

It includs the story behind celebrated paintings such as The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

The low-down on his inventions, which include;

the helicopter and bicycle,

and plain-English explanations of his groundbreaking scientific work in anatomy, zoology, botany, geology, optics, aerodynamics, and hydrodynamics.

The book also discusses his famed notebooks, his relationship to the Catholic Church, and the factual basis of The Da Vinci Code