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Leonardo Da Vinci's Personal Notebook
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."
Bet it has clues about jesus and coverups.
it was probably a powerbook. those artsy types are all the same.
-- lol pwned
Of course they are only allowed to do this because the copyright period has just expired.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
from their site:
There are also alternative non-Shockwave versions of three of the volumes. More will be added soon.
Ok, show of hands:
Who thinks Slashdot need to give a breathalyzer test to users before they let you press the Submit button?
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.
in Italia fascista, i taccuini li pubblicano
+1 funny, -2 overrated. Life isn't fair.