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Naturam, ac superas hac laesit imagine Divas Pictor: tantum hominis
posse manum haec doluit, Illae longa dari tam magnae tempera formae,
Quae spatio fuerat deperitura brevi.
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561.
Egidius Romanus on the formation of the human body in the mother's
womb [Footnote 1: Liber magistri Egidii de pulsibus matrice
conipositus (cum commentario Gentilis de Fulgineo) published in
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484 at Padova, in 1494 and in 1514 at Venice, and in 1505 at
Lyons.].
[Footnote 2:2. This text appears to be in a handwriting different
from that in the note, l. 1. Here the reading is not so simple as
AMORETTI gave it, Mem. Star. XXV: A Monsieur Lyonard Peintre du Roy
pour Amboyse. He says too that this address is of the year 1509,
and Mr. Ravaisson remarks: "De cette suscription il semble qu'on
peut inferer que Leonard etait alors en France, a la cour de Louis
XII ... Pour conclure je crois qu'il n'est pas prouve que Leonard de
Vinci n'ait pas fait un voyage de quelques mois en France sous Louis
XII, entre le printemps de 1509 et l'automne de 1510."--I must
confess that I myself have not succeeded in deciphering completely
this French writing of which two words remain to me doubtful. But so
much seems to be quite evident that this is not an address of a
letter at all, but a certificate or note. Amboise[l. 6] I believe
to be the signature of Charles d'Amboise the Governor of Milan. If
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