What Isaacson does, is say what made da Vinci special.

而艾薩克森寫的這本書，是在說甚麼東西使達文西如此特別

It casts his life in the broad sense by doing it chronologically.

他用年代排序來敘述達文西的人生

He explains why things flourished, how da Vinci was really so unique.

解釋為何繁華世事中，達文西如此特別

Leonardo would write about different topics, how rivers flowed or the symmetry of wings.

達文西會用不同的主題來表達河是如何流動的，或是翅膀的對稱

You know, flight really fascinated him.

他超著迷於飛行物體的

He always wanted to build some artificial flying machine.

他一直想造出能夠飛行的機器

He understood things that other people didn't figure out for hundreds of years.

他摸清了那些好幾百年來世人都不知道的事情

So he wrote all of his observation in these notebooks.

然後把這些觀察寫進筆記裡

And all these notebooks, thank God they weren't thrown away.

而這些筆記！感謝老天它們沒被丟掉

Some were lost, but a lot are preserved to this day, including a small one that I own

雖然遺失了一部分，但很大量的筆記都被保存至今

called the Leicester Codex, which means notebook.

包括我所擁有的「萊斯特手稿」

The rest are in European museums.

現保存於歐洲博物館

This idea of visualizing things and being able to draw it out and then talk about the

把想像中的東西具體化並且畫出來

phenomena, that's in all of these notebooks.

然後探討些現象，這些東西都記在筆記裡

And so they're unbelievable contributions to science.

所以這些筆記對科學的貢獻是毫無質疑的

da Vinci his whole life was most satisfied by scribbling and trying things out.

達文西的的人生都是在實驗和記錄中度過

If you study things, a lot of things make sense.

如果你也有研究這些東西的話，也會覺得這些筆記很有道理

Whenever da Vinci would get stuck, he had almost no peers.

不管達文西遇到什麼困難，他都沒有同事幫忙

In science, he was largely on his own

在科學方面，全都是靠自己

whereas now cool explanations of things are easily at hand.

雖然現在要解釋任何事情都很簡單

So it's a great time to go forward with curiosity.

在那年代僅靠好奇心來追求科學的達文西真的很厲害

Walter talks about, "Hey, his human mind is not of a different character than yours."

華特在這本書有提到：「他的想法和我們一般人是不一樣的！」

Therefore you know, "Have fun with your curiosity."

「隨著你的好奇心走！」

It's amazing how once you figure out one thing, that helps you understand the next thing.

當你理解了一件事後，又會幫助你理解接下來的事物

And then, you know, the whole thing makes sense.

然後，就會覺得所有的事物都有他的道理

I love it when it works that way.

我喜歡當世界是如此運作的