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Facsimile (Giunti, Florence 1988); ca. 1508; 14.5x10,5 cm
This manuscript, which has remained intact, is made up of 96 leaves. It is largely devoted to studies of water. Leonardo sketches vortices and waves. He also studies the reflection of the Sun and Moon on the surface of the sea, as part of a series of investigations into optics and light. Other topics studied are geology and geometry.
fols. 47v-48r: Waterfalls (left); flow of water against obstacles (right).
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Leonardo da Vinci
Studies of mills situated along rivers and canals