1371

Notes bearing Dates.

On the 1st of August 1499, I wrote here of motion and of weight.

[Footnote:1371. Scrissi qui. Leonardo does not say where; still we may assume that it was not in Milan. Amoretti writes, Memorie Storiche, chap. XIX: Sembra pertanto che non nel 1499 ma nel 1500, dopo il ritorno e la prigionia del duca, sia da qui partito Lionardo per andare a Firenze; ed e quindi probabile, che i mesi di governo nuovo e incerto abbia passati coll’ amico suo Francesco Melzi a Vaprio, ove meglio che altrove studiar potea la natura, e soprattutta le acque, e l’Adda specialmente, che gia era stato l’ogetto delle sue idrostatiche ricerche. At that time Melzi was only six years of age. The next date is 1502; to this year belong No. 1034, 1040, 1042, 1048 and 1053. The note No. 1525 belongs to the year 1503.]

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XXI: Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.
. . .
Drafts of a letter to Giuliano de’ Medici.
1351,
1352
Draft of letter written at Rome.
1353
Miscellaneous Records.
1354,
1355
Miscellaneous drafts of letters and personal records.
1356,
1357,
1358,
1359,
1360,
1361,
1362,
1363,
1364,
1365,
1366,
1367,
1368
Notes bearing Dates.
1369,
1370,
1371,
1372,
1373,
1374,
1375,
1376,
1377,
1378