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Leonardo da Vinci's Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages
Jones, Josh http://www.openculture.com/2017/07/leonardo-da-vincis-visionary-notebooks-now-online-browse-570-digitized-pages.html
Publisher: Open Culture
Date Written: 25/07/2017
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
A look at some of the secret manuscripts by Leonardo da Vinci, many now online, which remained hidden for centuries and only accessible by only the most rarified of collectors.
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Excerpt: After Leonardo's death in France, writes the British Library, his student Francesco Melzi "brought many of his manuscripts and drawings back to Italy. Melzi's heirs, who had no idea of the importance of the manuscripts, gradually disposed of them." Nonetheless, over 5,000 pages of notes "still exist in Leonardo's 'mirror writing', from right to left." In the notebooks, da Vinci drew "visions of the aeroplane, the helicopter, the parachute, the submarine and the car. It was more than 300 years before many of his ideas were improved upon."
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