The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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The carts and burdens for the use and convenience of the inhabitants  
have to go by the low ones. One house must turn its back to the  
other, leaving the lower streets between them. Provisions, such as  
wood, wine and such things are carried in by the doors n, and  
privies, stables and other fetid matter must be emptied away  
underground. From one arch to the next  
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must be 300 braccia, each street receiving its light through the  
openings of the upper streets, and at each arch must be a winding  
stair on a circular plan because the corners of square ones are  
always fouled; they must be wide, and at the first vault there must  
be a door entering into public privies and the said stairs lead from  
the upper to the lower streets and the high level streets begin  
outside the city gates and slope up till at these gates they have  
attained the height of 6 braccia. Let such a city be built near the  
sea or a large river in order that the dirt of the city may be  
carried off by the water.  
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The construction of the stairs: The stairs c d go down to f g,  
and in the same way f g goes down to h k.  
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