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Windows at Cesena. [Footnote: There are four more lines of text
which refer to a slightly sketched diagram.]
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At Porto Cesenatico, on the 6th of September 1502 at 9 o'clock a. m.
The way in which bastions ought to project beyond the walls of the
towers to defend the outer talus; so that they may not be taken by
artillery.
[Footnote: An indistinct sketch, accompanies this passage.]
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045.
The rock of the harbour of Cesena is four points towards the South
West from Cesena.
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046.
In Romagna, the realm of all stupidity, vehicles with four wheels
are used, of which O the two in front are small and two high ones
are behind; an arrangement which is very unfavourable to the motion,
because on the fore wheels more weight is laid than on those behind,
as I showed in the first of the 5th on "Elements".
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