9/8/2023 0 Comments Da vincis notebookWithin a single 'session' he could have multiple pages filled with not just writings and observations and thought but also with sketches. Then he would get inspired by the birds iridescent feathers that changed colors in different angles and make him wonder how that was possible and how he could include it in a painting.Then about the possible dangers associated with flight.Then he would get an idea about how to build it.Then he would sketch out an idea for a wooden wing.He would study the flights of birds and the anatomy of bats.Lets say he was trying to design one of his flying machines.It can be very difficult to decide on how to arrange papers that were written in more of a stream of consciousness with multiple subjects and themes being explored in not just a single notebook but within single pages and even paragraphs. Some were arranged and put into a specific order - by Leo himself. You have to imagine that at the end of his life he had created a collection of random and chaotic pages. They weren't like journals where he started one day, then picked it back up for the next entry, and started again in another identical notebook once the previous one was filled. They weren't a bunch of bounded books with each page being numbered and well- thought out - then placed on a shelf in order by theme or date. That doesn't mean that each and every page was in a particular order like an Encyclopedia or even chronological. At that time they would have been in some kind of order and arrangement that Leonardo himself organized. It's easiest to imagine that all of da Vinci's pages of words and sketches were in one room or box about 500 years ago. There is a complicated and story behind how each collection came to be in their present form and locations. Whatever the case may be we only have access to a small percentage of his original works. There could be some unknowingly sitting in a box in someone's basement or maybe there are even some in the possession of people who don't want to share them. Some were destroyed, some were cut and pasted, and it's also very likely that some are still un-discovered or un-disclosed. Leonardo would have attempted to arrange his works in some kind of order, possibly a significant order, but subsequent changing of hands and others attempts at re-ordering them has left them altered and dispersed around the world. However they were bounded, arranged, etc. After Leo died he left most of his writings and notes to his assistant Melzi. Leonardo's notebooks are more accurately called: "Manuscripts" (A collection of pages) and their arrangement and order are almost nothing like they would have been originally. Just click on "notebooks" or use the link above for a directory. *There are links at the bottom of each page for the various subjects covered in Leonardo's Notebooks.
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