Biographic: Leonardo

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quickfire journey through truths and trivia that is the most entertaining way to follow in the footsteps of the men and women whose lives have most influenced our own.

Each Biographic title is designed to be as entertaining as it is informative. Timelines set significant dates in the context of their times. Dynamic maps locate biographical waymarks alongside other points of interest. Essential numbers are developed into illustrated charts and graphs. The result is a portrait painted by numbers, which you seem to learn with your eyes and not your brain.

Many people know that Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath, one of the great creative minds of the Italian Renaissance and the painter of the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper". What, perhaps, they don't know is that his original notebook Codex Leicester, was sold to Bill Gates for $30 million; that as an ambidextrous, paranoid dyslexic, Leonardo could draw forwards with one hand while writing backwards with the other; and that he invented an armoured car, a flying ship and contact lenses".Biographic: Leonardo" presents an ingenious guide to his life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the master behind the masterpieces.