The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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of the circumferences of the circles of these wheels. He became  
aware of them by the animals that moved the vehicles. But he did not  
discern that this was a means of finding a square equal to a circle.  
This was first done by Archimedes of Syracuse, who by multiplying  
the second diameter of a circle by half its circumference produced a  
rectangular quadrilateral equal figure to the circle [Footnote 10:  
Compare No. 1475.].  
[
Footnote: Vitruvius, see also Nos. 1113 and 343.]  
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505.  
Virgil says that a blank shield is devoid of merit because among the  
people of Athens the true recognition confirmed by testimonies ...  
[Footnote: The end of the text cannot be deciphered.]  
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506.  
In Vitolone there are 805 conclusions [problems] in perspective.  
[Footnote: (Witelo, Vitellion, Vitellon) Vitellione. E da vedersi  
su questo ottico prospettico del secolo XIII Luca Pacioli, Paolo  
Lomazzo, Leonardo da Vinci, ecc. e fra i moderni il Graesse, il  
Libri, il Brunet, e le Memorie pubblicate dal principe Boncompagni,  
e 'Sur l' orthographe du nom et sur la patrie de Witelo (Vitellion)  
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