The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Ammianus Marcellinus asserts that seven hundred thousand volumes of  
books were burnt in the siege of Alexandria in the time of Julius  
Cesar.  
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Footnote: Ammiani Marcellini historiarum libri qui extant XIII,  
published at Rome in 1474.]  
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494.  
Mondino says that the muscles which raise the toes are in the  
outward side of the thigh, and he adds that there are no muscles in  
the back [upper side] of the feet, because nature desired to make  
them light, so as to move with ease; and if they had been fleshy  
they would be heavier; and here experience shows ...  
[Footnote: "Mundini anatomia. Mundinus, Anothomia (sic). Mundini  
praestantissimorum doctorum almi studii ticiensis (sic) cura  
diligentissime emendata. Impressa Papiae per magistrum Antonium de  
Carfano 1478," in-fol.; ristampata: "Bononiae Johan. de Noerdlingen,  
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482," in-fol.; "Padova per Mattheum Cerdonis de Vuindischgretz,  
484," in-40; "Lipsia, 1493," in-40; "Venezia, 1494," in-40 e ivi  
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"1498," con fig. Queste figure per altro non sono, come si e  
preteso, le prime che fossero introdotte in un trattato di Notamia.  
Nel 'fasciculus Medicinae' di Giovanni Ketham, che riproduce  
l''Anatomia' del Mundinus, impresso pure a Venezia da J. e G. de  
1182  


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