LEONARDO DA VINCI - Forster Ms. I

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Facsimile (Giunti, Florence 1992); ca. 1487-90 and 1505; 14.5x10 cm

This manuscript is composed of two different booklets, totaling 101 sheets. In the first manuscript (1487-1490) there are studies of stereometry, i.e. the transformation of bodies into different shapes of equal volume. These studies display Leonardo's intense training in Euclidean geometry under the guidance of Luca Pacioli. Hydraulic studies predominate in the second manuscript (1505).

fols. 13v-14r: Studies of the transformation of solids.

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