The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Pl. LXXVII, No. 3 (MS. B, 16b. see No. 741; and MS. B. 15b, see No.  
42) gives a partial view of the town, with its streets and houses,  
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with explanatory references.  
Pl. LXXVII, No. 2 (MS. B, 15b; see No. 743). View of a double  
staircaise with two opposite flights of steps.  
Pl. LXXVIII, Nos. 2 and 3 (MS. B, 37a). Sketches illustrating the  
connection of the two levels of roads by means of steps. The lower  
galleries are lighted by openings in the upper roadway.  
B. Notes on removing houses (MS. Br. M., 270b, see No. 744).  
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41.  
The roads m are 6 braccia higher than the roads p s, and each  
road must be 20 braccia wide and have 1/2 braccio slope from the  
sides towards the middle; and in the middle let there be at every  
braccio an opening, one braccio long and one finger wide, where the  
rain water may run off into hollows made on the same level as p s.  
And on each side at the extremity of the width of the said road let  
there be an arcade, 6 braccia broad, on columns; and understand that  
he who would go through the whole place by the high level streets  
can use them for this purpose, and he who would go by the low level  
can do the same. By the high streets no vehicles and similar objects  
should circulate, but they are exclusively for the use of gentlemen.  
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