The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci brings together, in English, the thousands of manuscript pages Leonardo filled over forty years with observations and plans, written in his mirror hand and never arranged for publication. Jean Paul Richter, who compiled and translated this edition, grouped the material by subject: the treatise on painting, with its sections on perspective, light, shadow, color and the proportions of the human body; anatomy; botany and landscape; the movement of water; architecture and engineering; flight; philosophical maxims; and letters, including the famous application to the Duke of Milan listing the war machines Leonardo could build. The notes are fragmentary and sometimes contradictory: they show a mind at work rather than a finished system. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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