The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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I. Those drawings and sketches, often accompanied by short remarks  
and explanations, which may be regarded as designs for buildings or  
monuments intended to be built. With these there are occasionally  
explanatory texts.  
II. Theoretical investigations and treatises. A special interest  
attaches to these because they discuss a variety of questions which  
are of practical importance to this day. Leonardo's theory as to the  
origin and progress of cracks in buildings is perhaps to be  
considered as unique in its way in the literature of Architecture.  
HENRY DE GEYMULLER  
XII.  
Architectural Designs.  
I. Plans for towns.  
A. Sketches for laying out a new town with a double system of high-  
level and low-level road-ways.  
Pl. LXXVII, No. 1 (MS. B, 15b). A general view of a town, with the  
roads outside it sloping up to the high-level ways within.  
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