The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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One's thoughts turn towards Hope.  
[Footnote: 702. By the side of this passage is a sketch of  
a cage with a bird sitting in it.]  
Ornaments and Decorations for feasts (703-705).  
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03.  
A bird, for a comedy.  
[Footnote: The biographies say so much, and the author's notes say  
so little of the invention attributed to Leonardo of making  
artificial birds fly through the air, that the text here given is of  
exceptional interest from being accompanied by a sketch. It is a  
very slight drawing of a bird with outspread wings, which appears to  
be sliding down a stretched string. Leonardo's flying machines and  
his studies of the flight of birds will be referred to later.]  
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A DRESS FOR THE CARNIVAL.  
To make a beautiful dress cut it in thin cloth and give it an  
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