{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0714.htm","path":"aor/dv/0714.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0714.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nSalt may be made from human excrements, burnt and calcined, made into lees and dried slowly at a fire, and all the excrements produce salt in a similar way and these salts when distilled, are very strong.\n13:338 : VASARI repeatedly states, in the fourth chapter of his Introduzione della Scultura, that in preparing to cast bronze statues horse-dung was frequently used by sculptors. If, notwithstanding this, it remains doubtful whether I am justified in having introduced here this text of but little interest, no such doubt can be attached to the sketch which accompanies it.","title":"Vol. II: XI. The Notes on Sculpture: 714.","type":"page"}