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Codex Atlanticus, 127r. - "Florence Canal" with a diagram of the route Florence – Prato – Pistoia – Serravalle – Lake (of Fucecchio) – Pisa. Writes Leonardo: "Make at the Chiane d'Arezzo such sluice gates that, when water is lacking in the Arno in summer, the canal will not remain dry, and make this canal wide 20 braccia wide and at the bottom and 30 at the mouth...", c. 1495.
Codex Atlanticus, 127r. - "Florence Canal" with a diagram of the route Florence – Prato – Pistoia – Serravalle – Lake (of Fucecchio) – Pisa. Writes Leonardo: "Make at the Chiane d'Arezzo such sluice gates that, when water is lacking in the Arno in summer, the canal will not remain dry, and make this canal wide 20 braccia wide and at the bottom and 30 at the mouth...", c. 1495.
Alessandro Vezzosi

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