Elenco Multiple Sling - Manual (Page 7)

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Da Vinci’s Notebooks
Several common themes recur in the now fragile
notebooks: nature, technology (including gears,
cogwheels, screws and pulleys), aviation and vision,
to name a few. Upon the death of Leonardo Da
Vinci, the notebooks were given to his long-time
friend, Count Francesco Melzi. After his death, Melzi's heirs did not fully
comprehend the value of the information and the manuscripts were dispersed.
They placed the notebooks in an attic where they were viewed by guests
who sometimes took pages with them as souvenirs.In a few years Melzi's family lost
all the manuscripts and soon pages were scattered across Europe.
In his drawings, Leonardo strived for
saper vedere or “knowing how to see.”
Da Vinci’s illustrations are unparalleled
and some experts believe that no one has
since been better.
Da Vinci’s notebook extracts were published in
1883 and about half of them have not yet resurfaced
so far. It is easy to imagine that had the notebooks
been published earlier, the history of science might
have been completely changed.