Front Cover of the Binding with Library Shelf-marks
Back Cover of the Parchment Binding
Spine of the Binding with Exposed Sewing
Fore-edge of the Closed Notebook
Edge View of the Closed Text Block
Head or Tail Edge of the Closed Notebook
GeometryOpening leaf: ornamental 'M' with geometric figures
GeometryClassification of triangles by angle and side
GeometryHow the three triangles derive from three quadrangles
GeometryThe long tetragon and the two kinds of rhombus
GeometryThe rhomboid defined; parallel lines
GeometryEqual triangles and the axiom of whole and part
GeometryGeometry sketches: triangles, a rhombus, and nested figures
Fables & ProseEmblem of the lantern fanned by two bellows
Fables & ProseEmblems: a lantern burnt by its candle and a bagpipe in a clamp
Fables & ProseOrnamental capitals and moral emblems
GeometryEuclid's five postulates
GeometryParallel lines from opposite ends of the world, after Ptolemy
GeometryContinuous and Discrete Quantity Compared
GeometryThe Five Postulates of Geometry
GeometryTransversals Across Lines, Arcs and Circles
GeometryPerpendiculars, a Subdivided Square, and 'On Local Motion'
GeometryDecomposing the Square: Gnomon and Supplements
GeometryCommensurable Sides and Square Numbers
GeometryNaming the Angles of Isosceles Triangles
Arithmetic & ProportionSquare Numbers and Continued Proportion
GeometryIsosceles Triangle by the Common Notion of Equals
GeometryThabit: Triangles Built on Intersecting Circles
Arithmetic & ProportionCommensurable Quantities and Their Common Measure
Arithmetic & ProportionSegments Marked with Numbers and Letters
GeometryPoint, segment and triangle constructions with circled figures
GeometrySegments and a circle with the axiom on equal magnitudes
GeometryContinuous and discontinuous proportion; dividing a line
GeometryDividing a line from an external point; the straight line defined
GeometryExperiments with triangular paper cut-outs; Euclidean notions
GeometrySuperposed triangular cards and equality of remainders
Arithmetic & ProportionSquares, roots and surds; a triangle with extended sides
GeometryThe nine common notions (Euclidean axioms)
GeometryRight angle in a semicircle; angles on a line
GeometrySquaring segments and forming rectangles from products
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GeometryGeometry is infinite; the arithmetic of discontinuous quantity
GeometryPlane geometry: triangles, a rhombus, and line segments
GeometryGeometry of rectangles and squares with computed areas
GeometryNote on opposite angles formed by two crossing lines
GeometryConstructions on angles, triangles and a circle
GeometrySquares on a triangle's sides and an 'irrational' height
GeometryRational and irrational lengths from a semicircle
GeometryIsosceles Triangles and an Extended Base
GeometryOpposite Angles Where Two Lines Cross
GeometryThe Seventeenth: Right Triangles with a Line to the Base
GeometryThe Triangle Inequality: When Two Sides Fall Short
GeometryRefuting Unequal Sides in Nested Isosceles Triangles
GeometryConstructing a Triangle from Three Given Lines
GeometryConstructing an Angle Equal to a Given Angle
GeometryRoots, Medial Lines and the Number 108
GeometryComparing the Angles of Similar Right Triangles
GeometryIsosceles Triangles: Angle a Exceeds Angle d
GeometryCommensurable Surfaces and Medial Lines
GeometryCongruent Triangles by Equal Base and Angles
GeometryCoalternate angles between parallels dc and fK
GeometryCoalternate interior angles are equal
GeometryRefuting the equality of coalternate angles
GeometryDiagrams of parallel lines and interior angles
GeometryConstructing a parallel through a point
GeometryProportional rectangles with root magnitudes
GeometryIrrational roots, triangle angles and polygons split into triangles
GeometryThe exterior angle of a triangle equals the two opposite angles
GeometryAngles about a point and the exterior angles of polygons
GeometryExterior angles of a triangle and the five-pointed star
GeometrySquares on a right triangle and parallelograms between parallels
GeometryParallel lines cut by diagonals and equal parallelograms
GeometryRectangle divisions, a triangle in a semicircle, paired numbers
GeometryParallelograms between parallels and the equality axiom
GeometrySquares and a trapezoid between parallels
GeometryConstructing a square equal to a triangle
GeometryTriangles of equal height and equal-area parallelograms
Physics & MechanicsA weight distributed 4 to 1 between two cords of a balance
Physics & MechanicsWeights Hung from Unequal Cords on a Balance
Physics & MechanicsWeight Between Two Pulleys: Does a Right Angle Move It?
Physics & MechanicsBalance Experiment: Does a Hung Weight Act as if Fixed at n?
Physics & MechanicsInclined-Plane Experiments: Drawing a Wheel Up a Slope
Physics & MechanicsA Balance Multiplied by Pulleys: Proportion of Powers
Physics & MechanicsEqual Arms by the Circle: an Equals ar
Physics & MechanicsThe true arm of a balance: where cord and lever meet at a right angle
Physics & MechanicsHeaviness along a cord and weights ranged on a semicircular arc
HydraulicsWhy water over sand makes uneven waves — and what it proves about air
Physics & MechanicsDoes a ship move with its wave, or with the wind that drives it?
Physics & MechanicsWeights descending three inclined planes meeting at b (c, e, d)
Physics & MechanicsOblique motion still grows in arithmetical proportion (prism figure)
Physics & MechanicsAir Resistance Subtracted from a Falling Weight's Motion
Physics & MechanicsOn Motion: Weights Falling Through Ever-Denser Air
Physics & MechanicsPyramidal Proof That Motion Grows in Arithmetic Proportion
Physics & MechanicsDoubling the Time Doubles a Body's Descent and Speed
Physics & MechanicsDegrees of Time, Motion and Velocity in Free Descent
Physics & MechanicsHow a Moving Body Generates Waves in the Air
Physics & MechanicsDescent of a Heavy Body and the Eddying Air Around It
Physics & MechanicsHow Falling Things Break Apart: Beams, Stones, and Grain
Physics & MechanicsA Thinning Stream of Liquid Divides as It Falls
Physics & MechanicsFalling Bodies and the Paradox of a Pouring River
Physics & MechanicsNotebook Page on the Fall of Bodies (untranscribed)
Physics & MechanicsDefinition and Diagram: Two Bodies Falling in Succession
Physics & MechanicsDegrees of Motion in a Falling Body
Physics & MechanicsA Falling Body Gains Speed at Every Degree of Motion
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Physics & MechanicsPower and Resistance on a Cord-Drawn Balance
Physics & MechanicsWhere the Cord Attaches Does Not Change the Lever
Physics & MechanicsA Balance with One Arm Inclined Downward
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Physics & MechanicsPercussion of Two Equal Falling Bodies
Physics & MechanicsPercussion Growing with the Distance Fallen
Weapons & FortificationRange of a Culverin and How to Measure It
Machines & DevicesWater Screws, a Drawbridge, and a Powder Question
Weapons & FortificationWhich Bombard Shoots Farthest?
Weapons & FortificationBombard Breeches and the Casting of Culverins
Physics & MechanicsHow a Run-up Affects the Length of a Jump
Machines & DevicesAn Advancing Bridge Thrust Forward by a Windlass
Machines & DevicesOverhead and Side Views of an Advancing Bridge Frame
Civil EngineeringUnloading a Column from a Boat with Levers and a Windlass
Physics & MechanicsAn Experiment on Two Falling Balls
Physics & MechanicsEqual increments in the fall of heavy bodies
Physics & MechanicsOn air resistance: air densest under the heaviest weight
Fables & ProseTwo jests and the maxim 'Truth is the daughter of Time'
Physics & MechanicsVolume, lightness, and the force of percussion in falling weights
Physics & MechanicsThe pyramidal law of accelerating fall
Physics & MechanicsHow much faster the larger weight descends
Physics & MechanicsA sling and the changing power of its launch trajectories
Physics & MechanicsTwo experiments on freely falling balls
Physics & MechanicsOn motion: which weight propels a lead ball farthest
Physics & MechanicsOn motion: smaller weights are thrown farther
Physics & MechanicsOn motion proportional to the driving power
Physics & MechanicsOn the power of the crossbow
Physics & MechanicsThe Common Wedge and Its Iron Sheath
Physics & MechanicsPermanent and Transitive Wedges; the Axe-Head
HydraulicsHow Water Sorts and Moves Sand on the River Bed
HydraulicsHow Falling Water Sorts Sand by Size and Weight
GeometryTwo Surfaces of Equal Area but Different Shape
HydraulicsSand Waves and Crossed Currents in Rivers
GeometryParallel figures compared, and the law of motion
HydraulicsThe fish's tail as propeller; contact of two currents
HydraulicsTwo water currents contending: an eddy at their meeting
HydraulicsSide view of two flows meeting: the prevailing eddy
Physics & MechanicsThe impossible cut: a test of judgment about weights
Physics & MechanicsBalance staffs: arms cut and re-hung as counterweights
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Weapons & FortificationCrossbow catch: lever and pivots
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Weapons & FortificationA charged crossbow
Physics & MechanicsForce and distance in the crossbow's discharge
Physics & MechanicsTwo crossbows compared: which shoots farther?
HydraulicsWater Spouting from Siphons of Different Nozzles
Physics & MechanicsThe Crossbow's Force and the Motion of Its Cord
Physics & MechanicsThe Crossbow's Diminishing Force and a Subdivided Triangle
Physics & MechanicsWhy the Arrow Leaves at the End of the Cord's Motion
Physics & MechanicsStudies of Impact and Weights Balanced over Pulleys
Physics & MechanicsThe Nature of Divided Weights
Physics & MechanicsBeam balanced on a box: press end a or lift end d?
Physics & MechanicsTwo graduated staves bowing equally under weights 1 and 8
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Optics & LightA branch struck by rays: brightest at a right angle
Machines & DevicesA windlass in a block: power a against weight b
BotanyA tree's branches sum to its trunk's cross-section
BotanyGrowth and Bifurcation of Tree Branches
Optics & LightLight, Eye and Object: Three Arrangements
Painting & PerspectiveOn Painting: Eye, Object and Light
GeometryThe Five Regular Solids, with a Tercet
Machines & DevicesSpring Mechanisms for Clocks
Physics & MechanicsA Beam Strengthened by Binding Cords
Physics & MechanicsThe sound made by a bombard's blast
Physics & MechanicsHow angled barriers divide a projectile's impact
FlightSwimming shows the method of flying
Physics & MechanicsWhy a heavy hammer drives a nail in one blow
Physics & MechanicsOn the power of percussion
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Physics & MechanicsPage of notes with small diagrams (text not transcribed)
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GeometryDividing a triangular "pyramid" into two equal weights
Machines & DevicesAn adjustable fireplace screen with rotating panels
GeometryRemoving weighted pieces of a pyramid by squared fractions
GeometryWhen two curved lines meet: parallel arcs and "curved pyramids"
GeometryHow Infinite Lines Can Meet at a Single Point
Arithmetic & ProportionContinuous Proportions: Summing 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64
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GeometryParallel Curved Lines and Concentric Circles
GeometryAngles Around a Point Equal Four Right Angles
Physics & MechanicsThe Pyramidal Power of a Crossbow's Cord and Arrow
Physics & MechanicsThe bow's motive power: great at the start, ending in nothing
Physics & MechanicsTesting projectile weight, material and spherical form
Physics & MechanicsCounterweight experiment on the best projectile form
Physics & MechanicsThe waterwheel as a motor of constant power
Physics & MechanicsCrossbow versus counterweight: how each releases its body
Physics & MechanicsThe motor of augmentative power, contrary to the crossbow
Physics & MechanicsMeasuring a Crossbow's Force by an Equivalent Weight
Physics & MechanicsThe Motor of Diminishing Force: Crossbow, Pulley and Weight
Machines & DevicesA Method for Chain Links; and a Sun-and-N Rebus
Arithmetic & ProportionWorn End Leaf with Arithmetic Jottings and a Flourish