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Leonardo Da Vinci's Personal Notebook

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pages-of-history dept.

IZ Reloaded writes "The British Library has made available 14 great books on its website. One of them is a 1508 notebook by Leonardo Da Vinci containing short treatises, notes and drawings of a wide range of subjects from mechanics to the moon. The site allows you to view the original manuscript written in Leonardo's own handwriting."

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  1. Needs Shockwave by pipacs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Needs Shockwave. Thank you, goodbye.

    1. Re:Needs Shockwave by the_unknown_soldier · · Score: 5, Informative

      from their site:

      There are also alternative non-Shockwave versions of three of the volumes. More will be added soon.

  2. available via project gutenberg by rillopy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The complete notebooks have been available from project gutenberg for a year and a half (without the pictures) at: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5000 It's also been on the top 100 list for a long time.

  3. Re:Backward handwriting by kalidasa · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ready for this one - they actually have a "mirror" button to flip it over for you! Now that's nice.