Books like The science of Leonardo by Fritjof Capra

Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography chronicles his rise from a self‑taught youth to a celebrated printer, inventor, diplomat, and statesman, offering insight into his life and the early United States.

Thomas J. Fleming’s biography brings to life Benjamin Franklin, the founding father who combined genius as an author, newspaper publisher, inventor, and statesman to shape America’s independence.

John Wesley Powell is portrayed as a pioneering explorer whose geological surveys and scientific studies opened up the American West for the nation.

Simon Winchester chronicles the life of Cambridge biochemist Joseph Needham, whose passion for China led him to uncover the empire's pioneering inventions—from printing to the compass—and to author the monumental *Science and Civilisation in China* series.

A carefully reproduced collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s Italian writings, accompanied by English translations and arranged by theme, offering a comprehensive glimpse into his multidisciplinary studies from early works to 1800.

Charles Nicholl paints an intimate portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, drawing on manuscripts, notebooks and contemporary witnesses to reveal the artist’s mind, his works, and his circle.

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Mastering Genius through Leonardo's Inspiring Techniques

A vibrant, four‑color biography of Leonardo da Vinci that blends facts with hands‑on activities, helping kids discover his art, science, and inventions through experiments, sketches, and interactive learning.

J. Craig Venter’s trail‑blazing journey—from Vietnam medic to pioneer of the human genome—reveals how his daring rereading of DNA reshaped science and sparked one of the era’s most fierce controversies.

The Renaissance was a child of many fathers--none more important than the three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history: Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli and Cesar Borgia. Each could not have been more different. They would meet only for a short time in 1502 but the events that transpired, would significantly alter their perceptions--and the course of Western history. In 1502, Italy was riven by conflict, with the city of Florence as the ultimate prize. Machiavelli, the consummate political manipulator, attempted to placate the savage Borgia by volunteering the services of Da Vinci as Borgia's chief military engineer. That autumn, the three men embarked together on a brief, perilous, and fateful journey through the mountains, remote villages and hill towns of the Italian Romagna--the details of which were revealed in Machiavelli's often-daily dispatches and Da Vinci's meticulous notebooks. In a book that is at once a gripping adventure story and a trenchant analysis of how men make history, The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior limns each man's personality, their interactions, and the forces that shaped their world. Superbly written, meticulously researched, here is a work of narrative genius--whose subject is the very nature of genius itself.From the Hardcover edition.

A graphic novel that follows the life of renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, chronicling her journey from Great Britain to Tanzania and her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees.

Discover how Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks reveal a 15th‑century scientific mind that pushed the boundaries of his time.

At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making—and unmaking—of Oppenheimer’s wartime and postwar scientific identity, Charles Thorpe illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons, the state, and culture.A stylish intellectual biography, Oppenheimer maps out changes in the roles of scientists and intellectuals in twentieth-century America, ultimately revealing transformations in Oppenheimer’s persona that coincided with changing attitudes toward science in society."This is an outstandingly well-researched book, a pleasure to read and distinguished by the high quality of its observations and judgments. It will be of special interest to scholars of modern history, but non-specialist readers will enjoy the clarity that Thorpe brings to common misunderstandings about his subject."—Graham Farmelo, Times Higher Education Supplement"A fascinating new perspective....Thorpe’s book provides the best perspective yet for understanding Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos years, which were critical, after all, not only to his life but, for better or worse, the history of mankind."—Catherine Westfall, Nature

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn.