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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. Re:Needs Shockwave by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Not being a luddite, I of course used the Shockwave version. If you had tried it also, you would've noted that there was a good reason for it: it includes a cool magnifier to view the pages, as well as some other neat features.

    Thank god we have people out there that aren't afraid to use technology to make things better, even if a small number of people whine about it. If people like you ran the world, we'd still be stuck using 80x25 column green screens.

    And, as other people have pointed out, there is an alternative link. Nice of them.

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    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
  2. Re:pdf by Declarent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wasn't aware you could put voice commentary, the magnifier, and the text reversing mirror in a PDF document.

    This is where we, as technophiles go wrong. The only thing that matters to us is the technology used to deliver the content, and we want the content to conform.

    Everyone else wants the content to look and feel a certain way, and just select a tool out of the toolbox to make it so.

    I think movies should be in PDF, too! One frame per page, that way everyone can see them without having to download a different tool!

    It's not about the glass, it's about the water.