The Age of Reason

Vol. I: I. Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Bo...

Codex AtlanticusInventions and EngineeringLeonardo da VinciRenaissance Science

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The Da Vinci Notebooks I know that many will call this useless work 7 ; and they will be those of whom Demetrius 8 declared that he took no more account of the wind that came out their mouth in words, than of that they expelled from their lower parts: men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and the only true riches of the mind. For so much more worthy as the soul is than the body, so much more noble are the possessions of the…

Vol. I: I. Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Bo...

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