Library/Paris Manuscript A

Paris Manuscript A

Manoscritto A

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Front Cover Lettered "A"
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Front Cover with Fore-Edge Flap
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Back Cover with Cord Tie
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Back Cover with Envelope Flap and Toggle
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Spine of the Binding
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Fore-Edge of the Closed Notebook
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Binding: fore-edge of the closed notebook
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Binding: vellum cover with clasp strap
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Binding: head of the notebook with sewn endband
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Front pastedown and flyleaf marked 'A'
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Flyleaf with Institut de France cataloguing note
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Blank flyleaf with library stamp
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Painting & PerspectivePreparing a Panel for Painting; Shadow and Statue Proportion
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Physics & MechanicsWeights and Levers; Perspective through a Pane of Glass
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Optics & LightLight, Shadow, and the Appearance of Relief
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Physics & MechanicsBalances, a Beam's Load, and the Proportions of a Head
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Painting & PerspectivePerspective Defined: Painting and the Pyramids of Sight
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Physics & MechanicsWhether United Powers Exceed the Same Powers Divided
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Physics & MechanicsOn weights, blows, and the flight of projectiles
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Physics & MechanicsBlows, levers, and turning a great screw
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Physics & MechanicsThe balance and the resistance of weights
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GeometryFinding roots and measuring areas by geometry
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GeometryMeasuring a tower by its shadow; strength of bundled ropes
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GeometryLeaning beams and canes: geometry of the right angle
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Physics & MechanicsPercussion studies and a compass proportion puzzle
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Physics & MechanicsA blow resounds through a resonant body
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Physics & MechanicsFourteen studies of percussion and rebound
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Painting & PerspectivePostulates of perspective and the diminishing of distance
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Physics & MechanicsWeight, contact, and the rope that moves more easily coiled
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Optics & LightThe visual pyramid and the circular spread of images
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Optics & LightPerspective: the Eye and the Visual Pyramid
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Painting & PerspectivePerspective: the Picture Plane and Diminution with Distance
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Painting & PerspectivePerspective Propositions and the Bisected Right Triangle
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GeometryDividing the Circle: Inscribing Regular Polygons
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GeometryDividing the Circle and Building an Octagon from a Square
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GeometryTriangle Subdivisions, Concentric Circles, and Eyeglasses
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GeometryDividing triangles by their midpoints into proportional parts
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GeometryInscribing a hexagon and pentagon; area of a quarter-corona
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GeometryNested squares and circles in geometric ratio
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GeometryA triangle in a rectangle always fills half its area
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GeometrySquares and circles that hold four equal copies of themselves
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GeometryScrew threads, a weighted bellows, and compass constructions
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GeometryGeometry: radius of an arc, a perpendicular, and a self-stopping door
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GeometryGeometry: dividing a line and inscribing a hexagon
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GeometryGeometry: dividing lines and finding an arc's radius
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GeometryGeometry: constructing a triangle, a square, and a pentagon
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GeometryGeometry: naming and grading the degrees of angles
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GeometryMeasuring a rope's length with proportional triangles
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Physics & MechanicsEcho and the rebound of sound at equal angles
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Optics & LightReflected colour and the mirror analogy of the voice
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Optics & LightConcave mirrors, reflected heat, and a bellows to make cold
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AstronomyMeasuring the earth's center and the size of the sun
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AstronomyMeasuring the sun's height and distance from two hilltops
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Physics & MechanicsThe rolling wheel, weight, and the causes of motion
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Physics & MechanicsBlow and weight: balls in corners and a cube-doubling method
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Physics & MechanicsAgainst perpetual motion, balances, and the fall of bodies
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Painting & PerspectiveWhere the painter should stand to the light; blow and voice notes
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HydraulicsThe movement of river water: floods, meanders, and surface flow
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Physics & MechanicsBouncing balls equal free flight; the fall of water
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HydraulicsWaves, currents, and a body held under a waterfall
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HydraulicsWater Studies: Meeting Currents, Narrows, and Waterfalls
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HydraulicsThe Pressure of Liquids: Vats and a Well with a Skin Bag
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Physics & MechanicsWater in Nature and the Rebound of Colliding Bodies
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Physics & MechanicsPerspective and Motion: Moving Light and a Swinging Weight
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Physics & MechanicsThe Blow and the Illumination of Air
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Physics & MechanicsDefinitions of the Blow and the Nature of Motion
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Physics & MechanicsThe blow: bombard recoil and shot striking walls and towers
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Figure StudiesThe moving figure: balance in rising, climbing, running, lifting
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Figure StudiesContrapposto: how a figure's sides change when it stands on one foot
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Weapons & FortificationThe double crossbow, and force proportioned to its projectile
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Physics & MechanicsForce and motion: the limit of a mill wheel and the mounted crossbowman
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Physics & MechanicsExperiments in weight and motion: falling bodies, water, and lifting
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Physics & MechanicsPercussion: a blow passes beyond the body it strikes
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Physics & MechanicsPropositions on percussion: bells, nails, and falling weights
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Physics & MechanicsPercussion, colliding balls, and the force of the crossbow
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Physics & MechanicsRebounding blows, crossbow arrows, and falling weights
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Physics & MechanicsInclined-plane motion, bending beams, and hurled bodies
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Physics & MechanicsOn weight, equilibrium, and the nature of the lever
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Physics & MechanicsQuestions on motion, weight, force and blow
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Physics & MechanicsWhat is force
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Physics & MechanicsWeight and force; a 400-pound block on four supports
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Physics & MechanicsHow weights press, and the advantage of machines
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Physics & MechanicsMotion through air, the blow, and the noise of the bombard
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Painting & PerspectiveThe beginning of perspective: the visual pyramid
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Painting & PerspectivePerspective Screens: the Square, the Line, and the Point of Diminution
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Painting & PerspectiveMeasuring the Diminishing Visual Pyramid with a Rod
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Painting & PerspectiveHow the Eye Sees Simply: Flat versus Curved Perspective Screens
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Painting & PerspectiveForeshortening a Figure onto Wall and Vault to Double Its Height
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GeometryGeometric Figures for Perspective and Foreshortening
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GeometryInscribed Polygons Tilted into Perspective
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Painting & PerspectivePerspective diagrams: octagon, gridded circle, and vanishing point
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Painting & PerspectiveViewing perspective from its own vantage; a shadow test
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Painting & PerspectiveThe proof a-b: viewing distance and a receding colonnade
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Painting & PerspectiveEqual figures on a semicircle; the twenty-times rule
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Painting & PerspectiveFinding the eye's height and distance in a perspective square
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Painting & PerspectiveFigure projecting from a wall; weights, beams, and a float
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Sculpture & CastingOn the Voice and a Method for Copying a Marble Statue
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Physics & MechanicsBallistics: The Strongest Part of a Cannon-Ball's Flight
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Physics & MechanicsHow a Cannon-Ball Strikes a Wall: Aligned or Twisting Blows
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Physics & MechanicsThe Right-Angle Blow: Impact, Recoil and the Bombard's Sound
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Physics & MechanicsOn Motion and Weight: the Lever and a Water-Pressure Test
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Physics & MechanicsWhy Supports Bend in the Middle, and Off-Center Loads Lean
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Physics & MechanicsStrength of a Column Divided Lengthwise and Widthwise
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Physics & MechanicsHow Doubling a Column's Proportion Affects Its Load
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Physics & MechanicsDe Ponderibus: Experiments on Weights and Supports
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Physics & MechanicsDe Ponderibus: Suspended Weights, Levers, and an Arch
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Physics & MechanicsHanging Cords Between Unequal Poles, a Bounce, and a Beam
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Physics & MechanicsOn the Support: Binding Rushes to Increase Strength
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Physics & MechanicsThe Strength of Loaded Staffs, Beams, and Twisted Cords
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ArchitectureThe Strength and Weakness of Arches and Columns
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ArchitectureFoundations, and the Nature and Breaking of Arches
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ArchitectureLoading and Strengthening Round Arches and Ogives
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ArchitectureEarthquake-Proof Arches and Reinforced Ceiling Beams
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Physics & MechanicsLevers, Pulleys, and Why a Long Rope Cannot Be Pulled Straight
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Physics & MechanicsMethods of weighing and bodies rolling down an incline
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Physics & MechanicsOn blast and noise, and the balancing of weights
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ArchitectureOn beams, walls, windows, and the strength of arches
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Physics & MechanicsDoubled beams and experiments on the force of blows
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Physics & MechanicsLoad-bearing of columns, and a mirror for making fire
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HydraulicsBeginning of the treatise on water: the body of the earth
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HydraulicsWhy water rises to mountain summits: heat and the earth's veins
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HydraulicsWater's endless circulation and why blood rises to the head
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Physics & MechanicsHeat makes bodies lighter; and the current at the Strait of Spain
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HydraulicsFlow through narrowing channels: crowds, syringes, gears, and waves
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HydraulicsWater forced through irregular openings; crossing streams in a fall
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HydraulicsWhy rivers shift their beds, what foam is, and how water scours a pit
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HydraulicsRiver pits, cataracts, and the erosion of riverbeds
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HydraulicsEddies and the erosion of riverbanks
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HydraulicsEddies wide below, narrow above, with an experiment
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HydraulicsEddies at the bottom and crossing wave-circles
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Physics & MechanicsCompound pulleys, rope motion, and a half-lit aperture
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Physics & MechanicsThe circular balance and compound pulley systems
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Horses & AnimalsProportion studies of the horse's head and human face
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Figure StudiesThe canon of the face: front and profile heads
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HydraulicsMeandering currents and the erosion of riverbanks
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AstronomyWhat the moon is; why the sun looks larger at sunset
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Optics & LightLight through apertures and the apparent size of bright bodies
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Optics & LightThe eye does not see through a single point
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Blank guard leaf with pen flourish
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Blank guard leaf with looping pen-trial
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Blank guard leaf with pen flourishes