Leonardo da Vinci stood at the forefront of the Renaissance as inventors, artists, and innovators reveled in the search for answers to questions that had long lay unexplored. In The Science and Technology of Leonardo da Vinci, readers ages 9 through 12 explore the life of one of the world's most amazing minds, discovering what it might have been like to live in the seventeenth century, when work, entertainment, medicine, travel, and food were very different. Kids love the links to online media, STEM projects, and loads of career connections in the fields of engineering, art, astronomy, medicine, and more!

Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan is an author and science educator. She is the author of several science fiction and non-fiction pieces for magazines, including Highlights for Children and Muse. For many years, she taught science and technology as an educator for Carnegie Science Center. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Micah Rauch is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator from the beautiful state of Montana. He received a BFA in graphic design from Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, and is the illustrator of Crazy Contraptions: Build Rube Goldberg Machines that Swoop, Spin, Stack, and Swivel; Fairground Physics: Motion, Momentum, and Magnets; and Kitchen Chemistry: Cool Crystals, Rockin' Reactions, and Magical Mixtures.