{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0684.htm","path":"aor/dv/0684.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0684.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\n \u00a0\u00a0Truth the sun.\n \u00a0\u00a0falsehood a mask.\n \u00a0\u00a0innocence,\n \u00a0\u00a0malignity.\n \u00a0\u00a0Fire destroys falsehood,\n \u00a0\u00a0that is sophistry, and\n \u00a0\u00a0restores truth, driving out\n \u00a0\u00a0darkness.\n \u00a0\u00a0Fire may be represented as the destroy of\n \u00a0\u00a0all sophistry, and as the\n \u00a0\u00a0image and demonstration of truth;\n \u00a0\u00a0because it is light and drives\n \u00a0\u00a0out darkness which conceals\n \u00a0\u00a0all essences [or subtle things].\n \u00a0\u00a0Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit;\n \u00a0\u00a0and maintains truth alone, that is gold.\n \u00a0\u00a0Truth at last cannot be hidden.\n \u00a0\u00a0Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is\n \u00a0\u00a0to no purpose before\n \u00a0\u00a0so great a judge.\n \u00a0\u00a0Falsehood puts on a mask.\n \u00a0\u00a0Nothing is hidden under the sun.\n \u00a0\u00a0Fire is to represent truth because it\n \u00a0\u00a0destroys all sophistry and lies; and the\n \u00a0\u00a0mask is for lying and falsehood\n \u00a0\u00a0which conceal truth.\n356:322 : See Pl. LXIII. L. 1-8 are in the middle of the page; 1. 9-14 to the right below; 1. 15-22 below in the middle column. The rest of the text is below the sketches on the left. There are some other passages on this page relating to geometry.","title":"Vol. I: X. Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorati...","type":"page"}