The Stolen Notebooks: Leonardo da Vinci and the Man from the East

By Susan Audrey Grundy

Brilliant. Challenging. A total game changer.
The Stolen Notebooks: Leonardo da Vinci and the Man from the East (Book 2 of The Zoroastrian Papers), continues the quest for the real genius behind the Leonardo myth.
Delving into reasons biographers promote Leonardo as the greatest polymath ever, hunting down sources and original texts, international writer Susan Grundy continues the shocking discovery: thousands of pages of technically advanced writings and designs now gathered into Notebooks and Codices attributed to Leonardo were stolen from the real author.
Leonardo's principle heir, Milanese Francesco Melzi told biographers visiting from Florence these were Leonardo's designs and drawings, and they believed him. It wasn't until the nineteenth century the Notebooks were re-discovered, as only then did the process of transcription and interpretation begin. European scholars were dumbstruck. They discovered the writer had been in the East. No one paused to question whether maybe these were not Leonardo's Notebooks?
By the twentieth century it was understood much of the technology behind the Notebooks was already thought of and/or in use in China and the Middle East, that is long before Leonardo was born. Although outstanding in execution, none of the ideas in the Notebooks were new, only new in Europe.
A careful pragmatic methodical deconstruction of the myth of Leonardo da Vinci as the world's greatest ever polymath genius, letting the authentic voice free. What will this mean for the study of Renaissance and early modern European cultural history? Things will never be the same.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1695688430
• ISBN13: 9781695688438
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"