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The Age of Reason

Vol. II: XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and ...

Codex AtlanticusInventions and EngineeringLeonardo da VinciRenaissance Science

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The Da Vinci Notebooks Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. Men wrongly complain of Experience; with great abuse they accuse her of leading them astray but they set [paragraph continues] Experience aside, turning from it with complaints as to our ignorance causing us to be carried away by vain and…