918

Of time and its divisions.

Divide an hour into 3000 parts, and this you can do with a clock by making the pendulum lighter or heavier.

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XIV: Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology.
. . .
898,
899,
900,
901
Explanation of the lumen cinereum in the moon.
902
On the spots in the moon.
903,
904,
905,
906,
907
On the moon’s halo.
908
On instruments for observing the moon.
909,
910
On the light of the stars.
911,
912,
913
Observations on the stars.
914
On history of astronomy.
915
Of time and its divisions.
916,
917,
918