1475

Quotations and notes on books and authors.

Archimedes gave the quadrature of a polygonal figure, but not of the circle. Hence Archimedes never squared any figure with curved sides. He squared the circle minus the smallest portion that the intellect can conceive, that is the smallest point visible.

[Footnote: Compare No. 1504.]

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XXII: Miscellaneous Notes.
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1455,
1456,
1457
Notes on pupils.
1458,
1459,
1460,
1461,
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1463,
1464,
1465,
1466,
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1468
Quotations and notes on books and authors.
1469,
1470,
1471,
1472,
1473,
1474,
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1477,
1478,
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1481,
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1487,
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1492,
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1495
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