The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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How to protect and repair the banks washed by the water, as below  
the island of Cocomeri.  
Ponte Rubaconte (Fig. 1); below [the palaces] Bisticci and Canigiani  
(Fig. 2). Above the flood gate of la Giustizia (Fig. 3); a b is a  
sand bank opposite the end of the island of the Cocomeri in the  
middle of the Arno (Fig. 4). [Footnote: The course of the river Arno  
is also discussed in Nos. 987 and 988.]  
Canals in the Milanese (1009-1013).  
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009.  
The canal of San Cristofano at Milan made May 3rd 1509. [Footnote:  
This observation is written above a washed pen and ink drawing which  
has been published as Tav. VI in the ,,Saggio." The editors of  
that work explain the drawing as "uno Studio di bocche per  
estrazione d'acqua."]  
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010.  
OF THE CANAL OF MARTESANA.  
By making the canal of Martesana the water of the Adda is greatly  
diminished by its distribution over many districts for the  
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