The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Aristotle in Book 3 of the Ethics: Man merits praise or blame solely  
in such matters as lie within his option to do or not to do.  
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480.  
Aristotle says that every body tends to maintain its nature.  
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481.  
On the increase of the Nile, a small book by Aristotle. [Footnote:  
De inundatione Nili, is quoted here and by others as a work of  
Aristotle. The Greek original is lost, but a Latin version of the  
beginning exists (Arist. Opp. IV p. 213 ed. Did. Par.).  
In his quotations from Aristotle Leonardo possibly refers to one of  
the following editions: Aristotelis libri IV de coelo et mundo; de  
anima libri III; libri VIII physi- corum; libri de generatione et  
corruptione; de sensu et sensato... omnia latine, interprete  
Averroe, Venetiis 1483 (first Latin edition). There is also a  
separate edition of Liber de coelo et mundo, dated 1473.]  
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482.  
Avicenna will have it that soul gives birth to soul as body to body,  
and each member to itself.  
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