Paris Manuscript E

Front cover of Paris Manuscript E

Back cover of Paris Manuscript E

Spine of Paris Manuscript E

Fore-edge of Paris Manuscript E

Edge of the closed text block, Paris Manuscript E

Edge of the closed text block, Paris Manuscript E

Front guard leaf with library stamp

Flyleaf with shelf-mark E and catalogue slip

Physics & MechanicsDeparture for Rome; leaping, the weighted foot, and the vacuum

GeometryCones in a cube, squaring the circle, and weights on planes

Physics & MechanicsFinding a lodestone's north pole; problems of the screw

Optics & LightThe motion of shadow; distilling through felt

Painting & PerspectiveCondensation, the Movement of Figures, and Shadows on Muscles

Painting & PerspectiveThe Three Kinds of Light and Towers Seen Through Fog

Painting & PerspectiveBackgrounds of Painted Figures and a Perspective of the Four-Sided Wall

Physics & MechanicsSound in a Pipe and Marine Shells That Raise the Mountains

HydraulicsHow Turbid Rivers Silt Up and Reclaim Marshes

Physics & MechanicsCords Hanging Between Pulleys and the Pull of the Sag

Physics & MechanicsHow a Hanging Weight Divides Along a Cord and an Angle

Painting & PerspectivePainting: Proportion, Depicting Wind, and Plant Branching

Physics & MechanicsForce and Accidental Weight: the Lever, the Spring, and Rectangles

GeometryGeometry: Superposed Equal Surfaces and Transforming a Square

GeometryGeometry: Pyramids, the Cube's Three Roots, and Pythagoras

Physics & MechanicsMechanics, Paradise of Mathematics: Wax Shaped into a Pyramid

GeometryGeometry: doubling a sphere and dividing a triangle by proportion

GeometryGeometry: proportional parts of a triangle cut parallel to its base

GeometryGeometry: turning a square into a rectangle of given length

GeometryGeometry: bisecting a triangle with one cut parallel to its base

GeometrySquaring the circle by rectifying the semicircumference

Physics & MechanicsThe resistance of spring-like supports

HydraulicsPlan for the First Book on Water

HydraulicsWater Instruments: Flow Through Pipes

Machines & DevicesWater Instruments: The Archimedean Screw

Machines & DevicesWater Instruments: Obliquity of the Screw

HydraulicsRing-Pipes Bisected by Their Diameter

Sculpture & CastingRecipes for Moulding and Casting an Arc

Optics & LightThe Eye, Shadow Proportions, and a Man Moving Weights

Optics & LightThe Eye's Pupil, and a Water-Glass to Enlarge Moon and Stars

Painting & PerspectiveComposite vs. Simple Perspective; a Note on Joints

Painting & PerspectiveSimple and Accidental Perspective

Painting & PerspectivePainting: Shadow, Colour, Relief, and the Shoulder in Motion

Optics & LightThe Pupil's Dilation and Colours in Light and Shade

Painting & PerspectiveThe colours of shadows and lit surfaces

Painting & PerspectiveHow light and shadow fall on trees

Painting & PerspectiveWhy winter landscapes must not be painted blue

Figure StudiesAdvice to the painter-anatomist on muscles

Physics & MechanicsPulley-block loads and drawing the figure's ages

Physics & MechanicsThe load and motion of five pulley-block cords

Physics & MechanicsOn the Weights of Pulley-Tackles

FlightOn Birds: Steering Flight by the Wing-Beat

FlightOn Birds: The Labor of the Downstroke and Impetus

FlightOn Birds: Hovering Against the Wind and Wing Position

FlightOn Birds: The Alula, Flight-Feathers and Shoulder Rudders

FlightOn Birds: Simple, Compound and Decomposed Descent

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GeometrySquaring the surface of a sphere by rectilinear motion

GeometryThe true rule for squaring any portion of a circle

GeometryCompound motion applied to squaring a circular sector

GeometrySquaring surface a b c d in ten staged figures

GeometrySix rules for the quadrature of the circle

Physics & MechanicsThe Perfection of the Cube; Friction of Pulleys on Their Axles

Weapons & FortificationBombards: Noise, Percussion and Firing Many Balls at Once

Weapons & FortificationPowder Chambers and Ignition Points of Artillery

Physics & MechanicsWeights, Their Movers, and the Rebound of a Heavy Body

Physics & MechanicsEqual Bodies Moved by Equal Powers; Circular Motion

GeometrySquaring the Oblique Triangle; Measuring the Sphere of Water

GeometryDividing a line into equal parts by a triangle

Optics & LightThe quality and motion of shadows

Optics & LightThe pyramidal shadow and kinds of derivative shadow

Optics & LightLight and lustre on polished surfaces

Optics & LightThe three natures of derivative shadow

Optics & LightDefinitions of shadow, and weights on the balance

Physics & MechanicsSquaring a circular sector; balance and pulley mechanics

Machines & DevicesApparatus for a great ventilator, and pulley-cord levers

Machines & DevicesA great hinged valve and water-bellows with cloth flaps

Physics & MechanicsOn compound impetus and the three kinds of friction

FlightOn the flight of birds: turning by bending the tail

FlightOn the flight of birds: wingtips, wind and turning

FlightThe Descent of Birds: Simple and Compound Obliquity

FlightWhy Migrating Birds Fly Against the Wind

FlightSpeed of a Bird's Descent by the Rules of Weight

FlightBeating Wings Against Still Air; Two Contrary Obliquities

FlightWhy Raising the Wing Is Slower; the Kite's Circling Rise

FlightRaising Wings Is Easier; Widening the Tail; Man Might Fly

FlightA bird outracing the wind along a square's diagonal

FlightA bird twice as fast as the wind: oblique gliding

FlightBirds flying in flocks: bounding flight in a crosswind

FlightWhy migrating flocks fly against the wind

FlightFigure-eight soaring and hovering motionless in the wind

Physics & MechanicsA classification of motions: straight, curved, and spiral

FlightWaves of the Wind and How Birds Ride Sea-Cliff Updrafts

FlightWhy Small Birds Fly Low and Large Birds Fly High

FlightHow a Bird Climbs on the Wind Without Beating Its Wings

FlightHow a Bird Rights Itself After Falling Head-Down

FlightBanking with the Wingtip Rudder Instead of a Whole Wing

FlightHow Birds Turn Without Rising or Falling

FlightThe Underside of the Wing and How a Bird Turns

FlightRaising and Lowering the Wing, and the Wing-Bone

FlightThe Wingtips: Their Curving and Bending in Flight

FlightBird-Flight Studies: Wing Diagrams and Notes

FlightWhether the Curved Wingtips Are Necessary

FlightThe Bent Wingtip: Condensing Air and the Circle c d b r

FlightFlight of birds: reflected winds and steering with the tail

FlightBats and the descent of bodies through the air

FlightThe oblique motion of birds and the wing rudders

FlightBird manoeuvres: turning, landing, braking, and rising

FlightTheory of birds: banking flight and a weighted wheel

Physics & MechanicsOf revolving motion: the spinning top

FlightBird flight: wing feathers, landing, and steering in the wind

GeometryMeasuring a river's width by triangulation

Physics & MechanicsLiving vs. mechanical movers; a kite's descent in wind

FlightThe wing's 'rudder' and the ship's rudder: how birds steer

FlightThe wake of bird and ship: air and water closing the vacuum

FlightKeeping balance in gusts: how birds avoid capsizing in wind

FlightThe Flight of Birds and the Science of Winds

Physics & MechanicsOn Weight Distributed Along a Sustaining Cord

Physics & MechanicsWeight Drawn by Tackles; Compound Balances

Physics & MechanicsOn Gravity and Its Supports

GeometrySolid Geometry: The Cube Divided into Pyramids

Physics & MechanicsOn the Heavy Body: A Cord Feels Double Its Load

Physics & MechanicsOn the Motion of Falling Heavy Bodies

Physics & MechanicsWhy an Equal-Armed Balance Rests at Equality

Physics & MechanicsOn Gravity: Locating the Balance's Fulcrum

Physics & MechanicsOn Mover and Moved: Lever and Counter-Lever

Physics & MechanicsOn Weights: The Balance Regaining Equality

Physics & MechanicsOn Weights: Beginning of This Book

Physics & MechanicsWeight and force: the potential lever and infinite division

Physics & MechanicsOn the cord: a weight at the center of a horizontal rope

Physics & MechanicsOn weights and cords: real and potential angles

Physics & MechanicsOn gravity and the cord: levers, counter-levers and angles

Physics & MechanicsDemonstration of the weight of the arched cord

Physics & MechanicsWhere the arched cord separates from its pulley

Physics & MechanicsThe Angled Cord and the Balance of a Hanging Weight

Physics & MechanicsWeight of a Beam and the Eight-to-One Balance Arm

Physics & MechanicsReal and Potential Arms of the Balance

Physics & MechanicsFinding the Center of a Suspended Body

Physics & MechanicsWeights on an Angled Cord: Four Demonstrations

Physics & MechanicsOf Gravity and Its Order: Levers and the Balance

Physics & MechanicsWeights on Cords over Pulleys and the Intercentric Line

Physics & MechanicsWeights on Angled Cords, and Why Winding Rivers Silt Up

Physics & MechanicsConverging and Diverging Obliquity; Is Gravity Natural?

Physics & MechanicsSix Cord-and-Beam Cases in the Science of Weights

Physics & MechanicsWhen One Cord Bears the Whole Weight; the Intercentric Line

Physics & MechanicsInverse Proportion of Loads, and the Three Centres of a Body

Physics & MechanicsGravity: the intercentric line through a suspended weight

Physics & MechanicsOn weight: the central line of gravity in suspended bodies

Physics & MechanicsOn weight: oblique cords and the axis of the force triangle

Physics & MechanicsBodies falling through air; a cord feels double its weight

Physics & MechanicsDividing a suspended weight between two cords by geometry

Physics & MechanicsBalance arm in wheel vs air; the accidents of water and air

Physics & MechanicsBellows, Steelyard and the Mechanics of Lifting Arms

Physics & MechanicsPump and Balance: Weight, Motion and Lifting Water

Physics & MechanicsWhy an Oblique Beam Does Not Fall in a Straight Line

Physics & MechanicsBeams Suspended in Balances: Obliquity and Weight in Air

Physics & MechanicsBodies Descending Through the Air: Beams, Boards and Rods

Physics & MechanicsThe Weighing of Liquids: Oil and Water in Communicating Vessels

Physics & MechanicsWeights on inclined planes and a cylindrical bellows valve

Machines & DevicesDredging machine for excavating marsh mud onto boats

Machines & DevicesAir pump with valves and a lever to raise water

Physics & MechanicsThe plumb-line of a weight resting on a slope

Physics & MechanicsThe question of weights on inclined planes

Physics & MechanicsDiminution of obliquity: weight and friction

Physics & MechanicsThe Friction of Weights on Sloping Surfaces

Physics & MechanicsOn Friction: Level, Sloping, and Calculated

Physics & MechanicsThe Center of Gravity of Uneven Bodies

Painting & PerspectiveThe Air Between the Eye and the Object

FlightAt Parma, 27 September 1514: Air, Falling Bodies, Perspective

Painting & PerspectiveThe Three Perspectives, and the Horse That Loses Its Legs

Personal NotesEnd-leaf with mirror-script notes and a numerical table