The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo
1. A drawing in silver point on brown toned paper of a woman's head
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looking to the left. In the Royal Library at Turin, apparently a
study from nature for the Angel's head (Pl. XLII).
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. 2. _addi 22 di marzo 1508_. The Christian era was computed in
3. 3. _racolto tratto di molte carte le quali io ho qui copiate_. We
4. INTRODUCTION.
5. INTRODUCTION.
6. INTRODUCTION.
7. INTRODUCTION.
8. INTRODUCTION TO PERSPECTIVE:--THAT IS OF THE FUNCTION OF THE EYE.
9. INTRODUCTION.
10. 4. This diagram below should end at _a n_ 4 8. [4]That portion of
11. 307. OF PAINTING.
12. 1480. On the same leaf there is a drawing in red chalk of two
13. Part I of the _Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano_, by Prof. G.
14. 3. The first five lines of the text are written below the diagram
15. 1. 2. C. A. 157a; 463a has the similar heading: '_del cressciere
16. 3. The MS. Leic. being written about the year 1510 or later, it does
17. 6. _fregalo bene con un panno_. He reads _pane_ for _panno_ and
18. 7. _colla stecca po laua_. He reads "_polacca_" = "_avec le couteau
19. 1506. (See Milanesi's note to Vasari pp. 43--45 Vol. IV ed. 1880.)
20. 1. _Incominciai_. We have no other information as to the two
21. 1. A drawing in silver point on brown toned paper of a woman's head
22. 2. A study of drapery for the left leg of the same figure, done with
23. 3. A study in red chalk for the bust of the Infant Christ--No. 3 in
24. 4. A silver-point study on greenish paper, for the head of John the
25. 361. G. Govi remarks on these ornaments (_Saggio_ p. 22): "_Codesti
26. 1881. But the coincidence is probably accidental.]
27. 1492. Leonardo's opinions as to the shortcomings of plastic works
28. 12. The meaning of _orreve_ is unknown.]
29. 1. That which gets wet increases in proportion to the moisture it
30. 2. And a wet object shrinks, while drying, in proportion to the
31. introduction to Astronomy (see Nos._ 867 _and_ 877_). Some of the
32. 897. _He does not go into any theory of the motions of the planets;
33. 1600. _As LIBRI pointed out_ (Histoire des Sciences mathematiques
34. INTRODUCTION.
35. Book 15 of matters worn away by water.
36. Book 9, of accidental risings of water.
37. Book 9 of the meeting of rivers and their flow and ebb. The cause is
38. Book 9, of the meeting of rivers and of their ebb and flow. The
39. 1339. All the foregoing chapters are from Manuscripts of about 1510.
40. 1. _Diodario._ This word is not to be found in any Italian
41. 7. _Citta de Calindra (Chalindra)_. The position of this city is so
42. 8. _I_ corni del gra mote Tauro. Compare the sketches PI.
43. 7. _vicini ai nostri confini_. Dr. M. JORDAN has already published
44. BOOK 43. OF THE MOVEMENT OF AIR ENCLOSED IN WATER.
45. 1536. A. Percy neither does mention any eruptions of Etna during the
46. 1473. [Footnote: *W. An. I. 1368. 1369. This date is on a drawing of
47. 11. 13. [Footnote: _Brera_, now _Palazzo delle Scienze ed Arti.
48. 12. [Footnote: _Sco Lorenzo_. A church at Milan, see pp. 39,
49. 2. 3. _Francesco de' Melzi_ is often mentioned, see
50. 4. _Lorenzo_. See No. 1351, l. 10 (p. 408). Amoretti
51. 1466. This seems to be an account for two assistants.
52. 1467. 5. See No. 1465, 2.
53. 1476. BRUNET, _Manuel du libraire_ (IV, p. 97)
54. 1476. Where Leonardo found the statement that
55. 10. Compare No. 1475.]
56. 1. 8II in all
57. 450. Of these I gave 2 the same day to
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