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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. Backward handwriting by mr100percent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will I have to flip my display to read Leonardo Da Vinci's backwards handwriting?

  2. Clues! by Eugene+Webby · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bet it has clues about jesus and coverups.

  3. i'm sure... by tehwebguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    it was probably a powerbook. those artsy types are all the same.

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    1. Re:i'm sure... by nganju · · Score: 4, Funny


      Using Moore's Law and assuming today's fastest notebook is roughly 3GHz:

      3 000 000 000 * ((1/2)^((2005 - 1508) / 1.5)) = 5.44313816 × 10-91 Hz ...was the clock speed of Davinci's powerbook. And you think YOUR notebook loads Adobe slowly...

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  4. At last by squoozer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course they are only allowed to do this because the copyright period has just expired.

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  5. 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.

  6. Not the only treasure by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland on there, too. Very cool!

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  7. Re:MY NOTEBOOK SAYS: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, show of hands:

    Who thinks Slashdot need to give a breathalyzer test to users before they let you press the Submit button?

  8. 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.

  9. What about Paul? by writermike · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why is "Paul is dead" written backwards on page three?

    Does anyone know? [[shrugs]]

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  10. Notation in margin... by TFGeditor · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that Mona Lisa is such a bitch!

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  11. In fascist italy... by cached · · Score: 5, Funny

    in Italia fascista, i taccuini li pubblicano

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  12. Important draft work by hotspotbloc · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's amazing that atleast one of his earlier drafts of his work at the Sistine Chapel survived.

    Let us give thanks to the FSM for this miracle.

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    1. Re:Important draft work by dedioste · · Score: 4, Funny

      "It's amazing that at least one of his earlier drafts of his work at the Sistine Chapel survived."

      It's even more amazing when you think that Michelangelo did the Decorations of the Sistine Chapel!

  13. 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!

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