Transcription: The handwriting and its arrangement on the page suggests the order in which he recorded his ideas. Leonardo was an impulsive writer, often jumping to a new idea before finishing an earlier one. The Codex Leicester is a working notebook. In it, Leonardo compiled notes and observations, in no particular order, he tells us, as a preliminary step toward organizing a treatise on water. One simple technique Leonardo used to organize his thoughts is to to begin each new case or subject with an elegantly rendered capital letter. Each page of the Codex has a main body of writing plus a narrow margin fo ...
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