The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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[Footnote: See PI. LXII, No. 2, the two upper pen and ink drawings.  
The originals, in the Windsor collection are slightly washed with  
colour. The background is blue sky; the plough and the instrument  
with the compass are reddish brown, the sun is tinted yellow].  
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82.  
Obstacles cannot crush me  
Every obstacle yields to stern resolve  
He who is fixed to a star does not change  
his mind.  
[Footnote: This text is written to elucidate two sketches which were  
obviously the first sketches for the drawings reproduced on PL LXII,  
No. 2.]  
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83.  
Ivy is [a type] of longevity.  
[Footnote: In the original there is, near this text, a sketch of a  
coat wreathed above the waist with ivy.]  
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84.  
Truth  
the sun.  
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