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hypothesis to a certainty.]
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From Bonconventi to Casa Nova are 10 miles, from Casa Nova to Chiusi
miles, from Chiusi to Perugia, from, Perugia to Santa Maria degli
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Angeli, and then to Fuligno. [Footnote: Most of the places here
described lie within the district shown in the maps on Pl. CXIII.]
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On the first of August 1502, the library at Pesaro.
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OF PAINTING.
On the tops and sides of hills foreshorten the shape of the ground
and its divisions, but give its proper shape to what is turned
towards you. [Footnote: This passage evidently refers to the making
of maps, such as Pl. CXII, CXIII, and CXIV. There is no mention of
such works, it is true, excepting in this one passage of MS. L. But
this can scarcely be taken as evidence against my view that Leonardo
busied himself very extensively at that time in the construction of
maps; and all the less since the foregoing chapters clearly prove
that at a time so full of events Leonardo would only now and then
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