Outer cover of the binding
FlightInside of the cover with a mounted bird drawing
Personal NotesBiographical note on Leonardo (later hand)
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Personal NotesNote on Leonardo's mirror-writing (later hand)
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GeometryTitle Page: On the Transformation of Bodies
GeometryThinning a Board Without Changing Its Volume
Machines & DevicesThe Proportional Compass and Its Screw-Nut
GeometryConstructing the Square Root of 10
GeometryCutting One Regular Solid from Another
GeometryEnlarging and Shrinking a Square Board
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GeometryCubing an irregular six-faced body from twelve lines
GeometryReducing a dodecahedron to an equal cube
GeometryThe order of the five regular bodies
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GeometryCubing a cylinder by lending and restoring
GeometryCylinders joined in a line to form one long cylinder
GeometryThe cube and its transformation into a cylinder
Optics & LightDirect and reflected light entering a cavern
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GeometryA board lengthened to a set limit without change of thickness
Arithmetic & ProportionTwenty-eight problems on transforming a board's dimensions
GeometryTwelve transformation problems for a solid board
GeometryThe three dimensions and six workings of a solid
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GeometryLengthening a compressed board without changing thickness
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GeometryGeometric construction of square and cube roots
GeometryThe Five Regular Bodies and the Infinite Cutting of Angles
GeometryDodecahedron, Solids, and Turning a Cube into a Pyramid
GeometryReducing a Dodecahedron to a Cube by Pyramids
GeometryVolumes of Pyramids and Wedges as Equivalent Slabs
GeometryMaking a Proportional Slab from a Cube by Three Lines
GeometryCompleting the Proportional Slab with the Judicial Lines
GeometryTurning a Cube into an Irrationally-Proportioned Slab
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GeometryReducing a Cylinder to a Square Slab
GeometryA Pyramid Holds One Third of Its Cylinder
GeometryMaking a Cylinder from a Square Slab
GeometryThinning a Square Slab and Its Growth in Area
GeometryLowering a pyramid while widening its base at equal volume
GeometryWidening or narrowing a pyramid's base at constant volume
GeometryTurning a pyramid into a slab of given length and width
GeometryA square slab of given thickness made from a pyramid
GeometryConverting a cylinder to a tall pyramid, and pyramid to cylinder
GeometrySquaring a pyramid's base and proportional division of solids
GeometryTurning a Cube into a Taller Pyramid of Equal Volume
GeometryCutting Many Lines in a Given Proportion
GeometryA Pyramid Fills a Slab a Third of Its Height
GeometryFrom a Square Slab to a Pyramid of Equal Volume
GeometryMaking a Cube from a Tall Pyramid, and Its Converse
GeometryCube to a Low Pyramid, and Pyramid to a Cube
GeometrySolid geometry: pyramid in a cube and squaring a pyramid base
GeometryPyramid, cylinder and cube each a third of one another
GeometryEqual-volume pyramids and a construction for doubling the cube
GeometryTurning a cylinder into a squared board of given thickness
GeometryCylinder-to-board conversion continued, with alternate methods
GeometryExchanging the dimensions of a board without losing width
GeometryTransforming a stretched board into a cylinder to find its thinning
GeometrySquaring a rectangular board to a given width
GeometryMaking one cube from two equal cubes, and squaring a board
GeometrySubtracting one cube from another, and summing two cubes
GeometryTurning a cylinder into a square board, and back again
GeometryReducing a square board to a cylinder of given length
GeometryReducing a Cylinder's Length: How It Thickens
GeometryTurning a Cube into a Cylinder of Given Thickness
GeometryA Cylinder of Given Length from a Cube
GeometryConverting a Quadrilateral Cylinder into a Cube
GeometryTransforming Boards into Tetragons and Cylinders
GeometryAdding Two Rectangles into a Single Square
GeometryReshaping a rectangle to swap its length and breadth
GeometryStretching a rectangle sideways to find its lost length
GeometryA rectangle's thickness when stretched to a set length
GeometryTurning a square into a rectangle of a given breadth
GeometryFrom rectangle to square and back, after Euclid II
GeometryFrom an outside point, a line cutting an equal segment
GeometryGeometry: locating a point equidistant from two given points
GeometryGeometry: the line through two equal circles' intersections
GeometryTurning a rectangle into a square, and changing its sides
GeometryTransmutation of solids: cylinders, cubes, and pyramids
Machines & DevicesWater-driven perpetual-motion machine, with two rebuses
Machines & DevicesPump for drawing water from a well; perpetual-motion screw
HydraulicsWater-lifting screws and pumps for continuous motion
HydraulicsPerpetual-motion instruments driven by water screws
Painting & PerspectiveRecipes for varnish and for a harmless room-filling fire
HydraulicsScrews and pumps for continuous water motion
Physics & MechanicsShooting an arrow farther, and a double water screw
Painting & PerspectiveMore recipes for fire effects and varnish
Machines & DevicesPump-driving wheel trains and a self-turning weighted device
Machines & DevicesPump drives, a self-turning water-and-lead wheel, and a stream-driven screw
Machines & DevicesPendulum-driven mill, a screw pump, and paired self-turning tanks
Machines & DevicesDitch-emptying scoop rods, pendulum pumps, and a rack-raised ladder
Machines & DevicesMan-powered stepped wheels lifting water, and a ditch-emptier
Machines & DevicesAnimal- and man-powered wheels driving pumps and scoops
Machines & DevicesWater-Lifting Machines: Piston Pumps, Air Pump, Screw
Physics & MechanicsOn Weights, and How to Measure a Tower's Height
Machines & DevicesDitch-Emptiers with Rectilinear and Circular Traction
Machines & DevicesWater-Screws and Bucket Systems for Raising Water
Machines & DevicesPressure Pump and a Vessel Feeding Six Conduits
Machines & DevicesBucket-Wheel in Arched Channels, and Piston Pumps
HydraulicsWater-Lifting Machines: Vaned Cylinder and Self-Balancing Pumps
HydraulicsScrew, Siphon and Bucket-Wheel Water-Raising Machines
HydraulicsPump Machinery: Toothed Quadrants, a Wheel-Screw and Conduits
HydraulicsCaged Archimedean Screw and Cone for Draining a Marsh
Machines & DevicesCaged Screw, Caged Cone and a Cranked Lifting-Shaft
HydraulicsHalf-Cylindrical, Half-Pyramidal Screws for Perpetual Lifting
HydraulicsWater-screws: a helical and a conical lifting screw
HydraulicsWater-screws in cylindrical and conical cages
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Endpaper with Forster Bequest ownership stamp (folio 55 verso)
Inside of the limp vellum binding
Front cover (limp vellum binding)