The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete
By Leonardo, da Vinci
Classic work by Leonardo, da Vinci.
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Translated by Jean Paul Richter 1888 PREFACE. A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most importa...
facsimile I have marked _A_, and "_giallo_" (yellow) where _B_ stands.] [Footnote: 15--23. These lines stand between the diagrams I and III.] [Footnote: 24--53. These lines stand...
the same mirror; and the same is true of the whole image of any object placed opposite to this mirror, &c. 210. No man can see the image of another man in a mirror in its proper ...
UZIELLI (Florence 1869, Vol. I). He remarks as to the 'four modes': "_Leonardo, come si vede nelle linie sententi da solo tre esempli. Questa ed altre inessattezze fanno desiderare...
portion is more foreshortened than any other of those which are turned with their tips towards you. And of those parts of the middle of the height of the tree, the longest will be ...
reasoning which is here used to prove that it is more improving to work with others than to work alone, that the studies of pupils only are under consideration here.] 496. OF STU...
pains to correct it in your studies. For if you are coarse, your figures will seem the same and devoid of charm; and it is the same with any part that may be good or poor in yourse...
Translated by Jean Paul Richter 1888 XI. The notes on Sculpture. Compared with the mass of manuscript treating of Painting, a very small number of passages bearing on the pract...
of each part of the mould to which the quantity in the furnace must correspond. And this is done in order that the furnace for the legs when filled may not have to furnish metal fr...
921. First you shall make a book treating of places occupied by fresh waters, and the second by salt waters, and the third, how by the disappearance of these, our parts of the wor...
924. THE ORDER OF THE BOOK. Place at the beginning what a river can effect. 925. A book of driving back armies by the force of a flood made by releasing waters. A book showing...
the same in the sea, where it is caused by the straits of Gibraltar. And again it is caused by whirlpools. 958. OF THE FLOW AND EBB. All seas have their flow and ebb in the same...
cause is the same in the sea, where it is caused by the straits of Gibraltar; and again it is caused by whirlpools. [3] If two rivers meet together to form a straight line, and th...
I have seen motions of the air so furious that they have carried, mixed up in their course, the largest trees of the forest and whole roofs of great palaces, and I have seen the sa...
the greater magnitude when the less is contained a certain number of times in the greater. A part properly speaking is that which may be multiplied, that is when, being multiplied...