Leonardo da Vinci: The Man Behind the Myth

Leonardo da Vinci has been called the greatest genius who ever lived. He has been reproduced on coffee mugs, euro coins, and motivational posters. He has become the automatic answer to the question of what human greatness looks like at its absolute limit.

This book argues that we have been looking at him wrong.

Not because he was ordinary - he was not. But the myth we have built around Leonardo has done something quietly destructive. It has made him useless. You cannot learn from a god. You c...