Volume 2 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts reveal full range of Leonardo’s versatile genius: his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates, plus faithful reproductions of more than 500 additional drawings.

Table of Contents for The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. 2

XI. NOTES ON SCULPTURE
Some practical hints
Notes on the casting of the Sforza monument
Models for the horse of the Sforza monument
Occasional references to the Sforza monument
The project of the Trivulzio monument
The mint of Rome
On the coining of medals
On plaster
On bronze casting generally
INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS ON THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS AND WRITING ON ARCHITECTURE
XII. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS
I. Plans for towns
II. Plans for canals and streets in a town
III. Castles and villas
A. Castles
B. Projects for palaces.
C. Plans for small castles or villas
IV. Ecclesiastical Architecture
A. General observations
B. The theory of constructing Domes
1. Churches formed on the plan of a Greek cross
Group I. Domes rising from a circular base
Group II. Domes rising from a square base
Group III. Domes rising from a square base and four pillars
Group IV. Domes rising above an octagonal base
Group V. Suggested by S. Lorenzo at Milan
2. Churches formed on the plan of a Latin cross
A. Studies after existing monuments
B. Designs or Studies
C. Studies for a form of church most proper for preaching
D. Design for a mausoleum
E. Studies for the Central tower or Tiburio of Milan Cathedral
F. The Project for lifting of an unknown temple
V. Palace architecture
VI. Studies of architectural details
THEORETICAL WRITINGS ON ARCHITECTURE
I. On Fissures in walls
II. On Fissures in niches
III. On the nature of the arch
IV. "On Foundations, the nature of the ground and supports"
V. On the resistance of beams
REMARKS ON THE STYLE OF LEONARDO'S ARCHITECTURE
XIV. "ANATOMY, ZOOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY"
I. ANATOMY:
A general introduction
Plans and suggestions for the arrangement of materials
Plans for the representation of muscles by drawings
On corpulency and leanness
The divisions of the head
Physiological problems
II. ZOOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY:
The divisions of the animal kingdom
Miscellaneous notes on the study of Zoology
Comparative study of the structure of bones and of the action of muscles
III. PHYSIOLOGY:
Comparative study of the organs of sense in men and animals
Advantages in the structure of the eye in certain an
Remarks on the organs of speech
On the conditions of sight
The seat of the common sense
On the origin of the soul
On the relations of the soul to the organs of sense
On involuntary muscular action
Miscellaneous physiological observations
The laws of nutrition and the support of life
On the circulation of the blood
Some notes on medicine
XV. ASTRONOMY
I. THE EARTH AS A PLANET:
The earth's place in the universe
The fundamental laws of the solar system
How to prove that the earth is a planet
The principles of astronomical perspective
On the luminosity of the earth in the universal space
II. THE SUN:
The question of the true and of the apparent size of the sun
Of the nature of sunlight
Considerations as to the size of the sun
III. THE MOON:
On the luminosity of the moon
Explanation of the lumen cinereum of the moon
On the spots in the moon
On the moon's halo
On instruments for observing the moon
IV. THE STARS:
On the light of the stars
Observations on the stars
On the history of astronomy
Of time and its divisions
XVI. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
Schemes for the arrangement of the materials
General introduction
I. OF THE NATURE OF WATER:
The arrangement of Book I
Definitions
Of the surface of the water in relation to the globe
Of the proportion of the mass of water to that of the earth
The theory of Plato
That the flow of rivers proves the slope of the land
Theory of the elevation of water within the mountains
The relative height of the surface of the sea to that of the land
II. ON THE OCEAN:
Refutation of Pliny's theory as to the saltness of the sea
The characteristics of sea water
On the formation of gulfs
On the encroachments of the sea on the land and vice versa
The ebb and flow of the tide
III. SUBTERRANEAN WATER COURSES:
Theory of the circulation of the waters
Observations in support of the hypothesis
IV. OF RIVERS:
On the way in which the sources of rivers are fed
The tide in estuaries
On the alterations cause in the courses of rivers by their confluence
Whirl
On the alterations in the channels of rivers
The origin of sand in rivers
V. ON MOUNTAINS:
The formation of mountains
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Reflections on Nature
XX. HUMOROUS WRITINGS
I. STUDIES ON THE LIFE AND HABITS OF ANIMALS
II. FABLES:
Fables on animals
Fables on lifeless objects
Fables on plants
III. JESTS AND TALES
IV. PROPHECIES
V. DRAUGHTS AND SCHEMES FOR THE HUMOROUS WRITINGS:
Schemes for Fables &c.
Schemes for Prophecies
Irony
Tricks
XXI. LETTERS. PERSONAL RECORDS. DATED NOTES
Draughts of letters and reports referring to Armenia
Notes about adventures abroad
Draughts of letters to Lodovico il Moro
Draught of letter to a Commission at Piacenza
Letter to the Cardinal Ippolito d'Este
Draught of letter to the French Governor of Milan
Draughts of letters to the Superintendent of canals and to Melzi
Draughts of letter to Giuliano de' Medici
Draught of a letter written at Rome
A fanciful letter
Miscellaneous draughts of letters and personal records (1355 to 1368)
Notes bearing dates
XXII. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
Memoranda before the year 1500
Memoranda after the year 1500
Memoranda of unknown dates
Notes on pupils and artisans
Quotations and notes on books and authors
Inventories and Accounts
Notes in unknown handwriting among the Manuscripts
Leonardo's will
REFERENCE TABLE TO THE NUMERICAL ORDER OF THE CHAPTERS
APPENDIX
History of the Manuscripts
Bibliography

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