Susan Broomhall is a historian of early modern Europe with over twenty published books on gender, emotions, science and technologies, knowledge practices, material culture, cultural contact and the heritage of the early modern world.
Leonardo’s notebooks are filled with illustrations of nature, both plants and animals, their interactions with humans and in local ecosystems. Did his deep engagement with the natural wor...
Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated by the human body. His disdain for painters who did not bother to learn anatomy was barely concealed in his criticisms of those who “draw their nude figur...
