The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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the sketch of an oval plan of a town over which is written "modo di  
canali per la citta" and through the longer axis of it "canale  
magior" is written with "Tesino" on the prolongation of the  
canal. J. P. R.]  
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46.  
Let the width of the streets be equal to the average height of the  
houses.  
7
47.  
The main underground channel does not receive turbid water, but that  
water runs in the ditches outside the town with four mills at the  
entrance and four at the outlet; and this may be done by damming the  
water above Romorantin.  
[11]There should be fountains made in each piazza[13].  
[Footnote: In the original this text comes immediately after the  
passage given as No. 744. The remainder of the writing on the same  
page refers to the construction of canals and is given later, in the  
"
Topographical Notes".  
Lines 1-11 are written to the right of the plan lines 11-13  
underneath it. J. P. R.]  
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