The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo
INTRODUCTION.
Schemes for the arrangement of the materials (919-928).
919.
These books contain in the beginning: Of the nature of water itself
in its motions; the others treat of the effects of its currents,
which change the world in its centre and its shape.
920.
DIVISIONS OF THE BOOK.
Chapters
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- 2. _addi 22 di marzo 1508_. The Christian era was computed in Ch.2
- 3. _racolto tratto di molte carte le quali io ho qui copiate_. We Ch.3
- INTRODUCTION. Ch.4
- INTRODUCTION. Ch.5
- INTRODUCTION. Ch.6
- INTRODUCTION. Ch.7
- INTRODUCTION TO PERSPECTIVE:--THAT IS OF THE FUNCTION OF THE EYE. Ch.8
- INTRODUCTION. Ch.9
- 4. This diagram below should end at _a n_ 4 8. [4]That portion of Ch.10
- 307. OF PAINTING. Ch.11
- 1480. On the same leaf there is a drawing in red chalk of two Ch.12
- Part I of the _Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano_, by Prof. G. Ch.13
- 3. The first five lines of the text are written below the diagram Ch.14
- 1. 2. C. A. 157a; 463a has the similar heading: '_del cressciere Ch.15
- 3. The MS. Leic. being written about the year 1510 or later, it does Ch.16
- 6. _fregalo bene con un panno_. He reads _pane_ for _panno_ and Ch.17
- 7. _colla stecca po laua_. He reads "_polacca_" = "_avec le couteau Ch.18
- 1506. (See Milanesi's note to Vasari pp. 43--45 Vol. IV ed. 1880.) Ch.19
- 1. _Incominciai_. We have no other information as to the two Ch.20
- 1. A drawing in silver point on brown toned paper of a woman's head Ch.21
- 2. A study of drapery for the left leg of the same figure, done with Ch.22
- 3. A study in red chalk for the bust of the Infant Christ--No. 3 in Ch.23
- 4. A silver-point study on greenish paper, for the head of John the Ch.24
- 361. G. Govi remarks on these ornaments (_Saggio_ p. 22): "_Codesti Ch.25
- 1881. But the coincidence is probably accidental.] Ch.26
- 1492. Leonardo's opinions as to the shortcomings of plastic works Ch.27
- 12. The meaning of _orreve_ is unknown.] Ch.28
- 1. That which gets wet increases in proportion to the moisture it Ch.29
- 2. And a wet object shrinks, while drying, in proportion to the Ch.30
- introduction to Astronomy (see Nos._ 867 _and_ 877_). Some of the Ch.31
- 897. _He does not go into any theory of the motions of the planets; Ch.32
- 1600. _As LIBRI pointed out_ (Histoire des Sciences mathematiques Ch.33
- INTRODUCTION. Ch.34
- Book 15 of matters worn away by water. Ch.35
- Book 9, of accidental risings of water. Ch.36
- Book 9 of the meeting of rivers and their flow and ebb. The cause is Ch.37
- Book 9, of the meeting of rivers and of their ebb and flow. The Ch.38
- 1339. All the foregoing chapters are from Manuscripts of about 1510. Ch.39
- 1. _Diodario._ This word is not to be found in any Italian Ch.40
- 7. _Citta de Calindra (Chalindra)_. The position of this city is so Ch.41
- 8. _I_ corni del gra mote Tauro. Compare the sketches PI. Ch.42
- 7. _vicini ai nostri confini_. Dr. M. JORDAN has already published Ch.43
- BOOK 43. OF THE MOVEMENT OF AIR ENCLOSED IN WATER. Ch.44
- 1536. A. Percy neither does mention any eruptions of Etna during the Ch.45
- 1473. [Footnote: *W. An. I. 1368. 1369. This date is on a drawing of Ch.46
- 11. 13. [Footnote: _Brera_, now _Palazzo delle Scienze ed Arti. Ch.47
- 12. [Footnote: _Sco Lorenzo_. A church at Milan, see pp. 39, Ch.48
- 2. 3. _Francesco de' Melzi_ is often mentioned, see Ch.49
- 4. _Lorenzo_. See No. 1351, l. 10 (p. 408). Amoretti Ch.50
- 1466. This seems to be an account for two assistants. Ch.51
- 1467. 5. See No. 1465, 2. Ch.52
- 1476. BRUNET, _Manuel du libraire_ (IV, p. 97) Ch.53
- 1476. Where Leonardo found the statement that Ch.54
- 10. Compare No. 1475.] Ch.55
- 1. 8II in all Ch.56
- 450. Of these I gave 2 the same day to Ch.57