Da Vinci Notes #1 How by a certain machine many may stay some time under water. And how and wherefore I do not describe my method of remaining under water and...
Da Vinci Notes #1 When you put together the science of the motions of water, remember to include under each proposition its application and use, in order that...
Da Vinci Notes #3 - Ability to Understand Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work. Keith's Ideas: 1. Don't present your ideas to...
Da Vinci Notes #4 - Repetition Can Be Creative Begun at Florence, in the house of Piero di Braccio Martelli, on the 22nd day of March 1508. And this is to be a...
Da Vinci Notes #5 - Theory & Application Of digging a canal. Put this in the Book of useful inventions and in proving them bring forward the propositions...
Da Vinci Notes #6 - New + Old I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion. ...
Da Vinci Notes #7 - Understanding Before Invention (Innovation) The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.-- Have your...
Da Vinci Notes #8 - Thinking Sequence The order of your book must proceed on this plan: first simple beams, then (those) supported from below, then suspended...
Da Vinci Notes #9 - Best not equal to Appropriate Seeing that I can find no subject specially useful or pleasing -- since the men who have come before me have...
Da Vinci Notes #10 - Truth can be misunderstood I know that many will call this useless work and they will be those of whom Demetrius declared that he took no...
Da Vinci Notes #11 - Inventor & Copycat Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more...
Da Vinci Notes #12 - Ignorance Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the ...
Da Vinci Notes #13 - Different Perspectives Among all the studies of natural causes and reasons, Light chiefly delights the beholder; and among the great...
Da Vinci Notes #14 - Things Far Away ON THE THREE BRANCHES OF PERSPECTIVE. There are three branches of perspective; the first deals with the reasons of the...
Da Vinci Notes #15 - Transfer of Principles ON PAINTING AND PERSPECTIVE The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes...
Da Vinci Notes #16 - Diminshing When Far Away THE DISCOURSE ON PAINTING Perspective, as bearing on drawing, is divided into three principal sections; of which...
Da Vinci Notes #17 - Major & Minor Points ON THE SECTIONS OF [THE BOOK ON] PAINTING. The first thing in painting is that the objects it represents should ...
Da Vinci Notes #18 - Rules These rules are of use only in correcting the figures; since every man makes some mistakes in his first compositions and he who...
Da Vinci Notes #19 - Doing Without Knowledge OF THE MISTAKES MADE BY THOSE WHO PRACTISE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE. Those who are in love with practice without...
Da Vinci Notes #20 - Modeling The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in...
Da Vinci Notes #21 - Ignorance INTRODUCTION TO PERSPECTIVE:--THAT IS OF THE FUNCTION OF THE EYE. Behold here O reader! a thing concerning which we cannot trust...
Da Vinci Code #22 - Seeing is the Reproduction of the Actual Things Here [in the eye] forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are...
Da Vinci Notes #23 - Complete View OF THE 10 ATTRIBUTES OF THE EYE, ALL CONCERNED IN PAINTING. Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which...
Da Vinci Notes #24 - Illusions ON PAINTING. Variability of the eye. 1st. The pupil of the eye contracts, in proportion to the increase of light which is...
Da Vinci Notes #25 - Clarity Deminishing If Too Near Focus of sight. If the eye is required to look at an object placed too near to it, it cannot judge of it...
Da Vinci Notes #26 - Using Both Eyes for Clarity OF THE EYE. When both eyes direct the pyramid of sight to an object, that object becomes clearly seen and...
Da Vinci Notes #27 - Use Both of Your Eyes Objects seen by one and the same eye appear sometimes large, and sometimes small. Keith's Ideas: 1. Don't use one...
Da Vinci Notes #28 - When You Change, Your Perception Changes The motion of a spectator who sees an object at rest often makes it seem as though the object at...
Da Vinci Notes #29 - 2-D & 3-D View Let the object in relief _t_ be seen by both eyes; if you will look at the object with the right eye _m_, keeping the left...
Da Vinci Notes #30 - Difference Causes Clarity The comparative size of the image depends on the amount of light (30-39). The eye will hold and retain in itself...
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