LEONARDO DA VINCIS NOTE-BOOKS Arranged and rendered into English
with Introductions BY EDWARD M C CURDY, M. A. NEW YORK KMPIRK STATE
BOOK COMPANY 1923 Copyright h Empirt State Book Company i Turin
LEONARDO DA VINCI DHAWN BV HIMSRI. K AVANT PROPOS There are many
books of which it may be said that the world will survive their
loss, and there are others so replete with inspiration that they
should be in the hands of every student of human progress for, when
it is granted to us to become acquainted, even to a small extent,
with the lives and efforts of those to whom the world is indebted,
when we have placed before us the record of courageous struggle, of
unwavering fortitude, we are often led to imitate and strive in
accordance with the example set before us, and so bring to a
successful termination what before promised to be defeat. There is
another advantage as well that comes t from the study of these
intimate records of a mans life the broadening of the mental
horizon as we strive to grasp the underlying motives that have pro
duced such application, such devotion, to aims and ideals that, for
the majority of us, have little or no drawing power. The very
effort we make to under stand the force that has commanded such
self sacrificing consecration to an end that has no attrac tion for
us, brings us within the circle, and conse quently, the influence
of a new life, new vistas arc open before us, and as we assimilate
and grow we achieve one of the greatest things in life we grow into
furuier understanding of the infinite world of the human heart, we
see things from a different angle and the sympathies once limited
to a narrow sphere, have broadened out and embraced yet another
truth. So inplacing once more before the reading Public the Note
Books of Leonardo da Vinci, we feel that we are performing a
service for which that Public will feel grateful. The careful study
of the work of one who stands out as one of the worlds greatest
intellects, whose prophetic vision was so keen that it has led to
his being qualified as the forerunner of many aspects of modern
scientific research, can only be of the greatest value to all those
who are inter ested in tracing the advance of Human Achievement and
in particular, of studying those rare cases where the mind has
leaped across the boundaries of the age in which it lived and
worked EMPIRE STATE BOOK Co. January, 1923. PREFACE THE manuscripts
of Leonardo da Vinci afford the chief existing proof of that
extraordinary versatility with which he has been credited from the
time of his earliest biographers downwards. They comprise the
records and results of his studies in the theory of art and in
various branches of mathematical and natural science, together with
fragments of literary composition of a philosophical or imaginative
character, and in addition much personal and biographical matter.
The manuscripts in their pre sent form consist of about twenty
note-books and bound volumes or collections of loose sheets of
various sixes, containing altogether more than four thousand pages.
While on many of these there are only drawings or scientific
diagrams with at most a few words of comment or explanation, others
are covered with minute writing, which with the rarest exceptions
is of the character known as c left-handed from the fact of its
direction across the page being from right to left, and which is
therefore most easily read by the useof a mirror. The contents of
these manuscripts, with the exception of such parts as are
contained in the compilation known as Leonardos Treatise on
fainting have up to the present time only been available to English
readers in the edition ri PREFACE selected and edited by Dr.
Richter...
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