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How long does it take to read Leonardo Da Vinci?

Sherwin B. Nuland

Leonardo Da Vinci by Sherwin B. Nuland takes about 3 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 7 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2000. 170 pages, about 46,750 words.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 12 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 7 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 57 minutes

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"In Leonardo da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his twenty-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? How could he be, in the same moment, as naive as a child and as profound as a sage?". "Nuland finds clues in his subject's art, relationships, and scientific studies - as well as in the manuscripts spotlighted by their sale at auction to Bill Gates. Nuland detects the siren voice that lured the great artist so often into the arms of science - his fascination with anatomy, first as the basis for his paintings and then as the crucial component in his aim to systematize all knowledge of nature."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects: Biographies, Artistes, Artists, Biography, Artists, italy

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