The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Maestro Stefano Caponi, a physician, lives at the piscina, and has  
Euclid De Ponderibus.  
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th Book of Euclid. First definition: a part is a quantity of less  
magnitude than the greater magnitude when the less is contained a  
certain number of times in the greater.  
A part properly speaking is that which may be multiplied, that is  
when, being multiplied by a certain number, it forms exactly the  
whole. A common aggregate part ...  
Second definition. A greater magnitude is said to be a multiple of a  
less, when the greater is measured by the less.  
By the first we define the lesser [magnitude] and by the second the  
greater is defined. A part is spoken  
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of in relation to the whole; and all their relations lie between  
these two extremes, and are called multiples.  
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