{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/1448.htm","path":"aor/dv/1448.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/1448.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nAn algebra, which the Marliani have, written by their father, 763 --\nOn the bone, by the Marliani,--\nOn the bone which penetrates, Gian Giacomo of Bellinzona, to draw out the nail with facility,--\nThe measurement of Boccalino,--\nThe measurement of Milan and the suburbs, 764 --\nA book, treating of Milan and its churches which is to be had at the last stationer's on the way to Corduso 765 ,--\nThe measurement of the Corte Vecchia,--\nThe measurement of the Castle,--\nGet the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a....,--\nGet Messer Fazio to show you [the book] on proportion,--\nGet the Friar di Brera to show you [the book] 'de Ponderibus',-- 766\nOf the measurement of San Lorenzo,-- 767\nI lent certain groups to Fra Filippo de Brera,-- 768\nMemorandum: to ask Maestro Giovannino as to the mode in which the tower of Ferrara is walled without loopholes,--\nAsk Maestro Antonio how mortars are placed on bastions by day or by night,--\nAsk Benedetto Portinari how the people go on the ice in Flanders,-- 769\nOn proportions by Alchino, with notes by Marliano, from Messer Fazio,--\nThe measurement of the sun, promised me by Maestro Giovanni, the Frenchman,--\nThe cross bow of Maestro Gianetto,--\nThe book by Giovanni Taverna that Messer Fazio,--\nYou will draw Milan [21],--\nThe measurement of the canal, locks and supports, and large boats; and the expense,--\nPlan of Milan 770 ,--\nGroups by Bramante 771 ,--\nThe book on celestial phenomena by Aristoteles, in Italian 772 ,--\nTry to get Vitolone, which is in the library at Pavia 773 and which treats of Mathematics,--He had a master [learned] in waterworks and get him to explain the repairs and the costs, and a lock and a canal and a mill in the Lombard fashion.\nA grandson of Gian Angelo's, the painter has a book on water which was his fathers.\nPaolino Scarpellino, called Assiolo has great knowledge of water works.\n434:763 1: Marliani, an old Milanese family, now extinct.\n434:764 5: 21. See Pl. CIX and No. 1016.\n434:765 6: Corduso, see No. 1413, note.\n435:766 : 11. 13. Brera, now Palazzo delle Scienze ed Arti. Until 1571 it was the monastery of the order of the Umiliati and afterwards of the Jesuits.\nDe ponderibus, compare No. 1436, 3.\n435:767 : 12. Sco Lorenzo. A church at Milan, see pp. 39, 40 and 50.\n435:768 : 13. 24. Gruppi. See Vol. I p. 355, No. 600, note 9.\n435:769 : 16. The Portinari were one of the great merchant- families of Florence.\n435:770 23: Fondamento is commonly used by Leonardo to mean ground-plan. See for instance p. 53.\n435:771 24: Gruppi. See Vol. I p. 355, No. 600, note 9.\n435:772 25: Meteora. By this Leonardo means no doubt the four books \u03c4\u1f70 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b9\u03c7\u03ac. He must refer here to a MS. translation, as no Italian translation is known to have been published (see No. 1477 note).\n435:773 26: Vitolone see No. 1506, note.\nLibreria di Pavia. One of the most famous of Italian libraries. After the victory of Novara in April 1500, Louis XII had it conveyed to France, 'come trofeo di vittoria'!","title":"Vol. II: XXII. Miscellaneous Notes: 1448.","type":"page"}