The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 845 pages of information about The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 845 pages of information about The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete.
Boots,—­gloves, socks, combs, papers, towels, shirts,....
shoe-tapes,--..... shoes, penknife, pens.  A skin for the chest.

[Footnote:  4.  Lapis.  Compare Condivi, Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarotti, Chap.  XVIII.:  Ma egli (Michelangelo) non avendo che mostrare, prese una penna (percioche in quel tempo il lapis non era in uso) e con tal leggiadria gli dipinse una mano ecc. The incident is of the year l496.—­Lapis means pencil, and chalk (matita).  Between lines 7 and 8 are the texts given as Nos. 819 and No. 7.]

Undated memoranda (1435-1457).

1435.

The book of Piero Crescenze,—­studies from the nude by Giovanni
Ambrosio,—­compasses, —­the book of Giovanni Giacomo.

1436.

MEMORARDUM.

To make some provisions for my garden, —­Giordano, De Ponderibus[Footnote 3:  Giordano.  Jordanus Nemorarius, a mathematician of the beginning of the XIIIth century.  No particulars of his life are known.  The title of his principal work is:  Arithmetica decem libris demonstrata, first published at Paris 1496.  In 1523 appeared at Nuremberg:  Liber Jordani Nemorarii de ponderibus, propositiones XIII et earundem demonstrationes, multarumque rerum rationes sane pulcherrimas complectens, nunc in lucem editus.],—­the peacemaker, the flow and ebb of the sea,—­have two baggage trunks made, look to Beltraffio’s [Footnote 6:  Beltraffio, see No. 465, note 2.

There are sketches by the side of lines 8 and 10.] lathe and have taken the stone,—­out leave the books belonging to Messer Andrea the German,—­ make scales of a long reed and weigh the substance when hot and again when cold.  The mirror of Master Luigi; A b the flow and ebb of the water is shown at the mill of Vaprio,—­a cap.

1437.

Giovanni Fabre,—­Lazaro del Volpe,—­ the common,—­Ser Piero.

[Footnote:  These names are inserted on a plan of plots of land adjoining the Arno.]

1438.

[Lactantius], [the book of Benozzo], groups,—­to bind the book,—­a lantern,—­Ser Pecantino,—­Pandolfino.—­[Rosso]—­a square, —­small knives,—­carriages,—­curry combs—­ cup.

1439.

Quadrant of Carlo Marmocchi,—­Messer Francesco Araldo,—­Ser Benedetto d’Accie perello,—­Benedetto on arithmetic,—­Maestro Paulo, physician,--Domenico di Michelino,-- ...... of the Alberti,--Messer Giovanni Argimboldi.

1440.

Colours, formula,—­Archimedes,—­Marcantonio.

Tinned iron,—­pierced iron.

1441.

See the shop that was formerly Bartolommeo’s, the stationer.

[Footnote:  6. Marc Antonio, see No. 1433.]

1442.

The first book is by Michele di Francesco Nabini; it treats on science.

1443.

Messer Francesco, physician of Lucca, with the Cardinal Farnese.

[Footnote:  Alessandro Farnese, afterwards Pope Paul III was created in 1493 Cardinal di San Cosimo e San Damiano, by Alexander VI.]

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