Leonardo Da Vinci's Personal Notebook 135
IZ Reloaded writes "The British Library has made available 14 great books on its website. One of them is a 1508 notebook by Leonardo Da Vinci containing short treatises, notes and drawings of a wide range of subjects from mechanics to the moon. The site allows you to view the original manuscript written in Leonardo's own handwriting."
Backward handwriting (Score:5, Funny)
Clues! (Score:5, Funny)
i'm sure... (Score:5, Funny)
At last (Score:5, Funny)
Of course they are only allowed to do this because the copyright period has just expired.
A design document without use cases ? (Score:2, Funny)
Bad Leonard !!
I'm sure this guy is a kernel developer
Re:MY NOTEBOOK SAYS: (Score:5, Funny)
Who thinks Slashdot need to give a breathalyzer test to users before they let you press the Submit button?
If he was supposed to be so smart (Score:3, Funny)
Re:pdf (Score:3, Funny)
So it's not only diculous, it's re-diculous? That's twice as diculous!
Not to ridicule your spelling or anything, since your larger point feels about right. Plain HTML and simple images seem so much more sensible, and platform agnostic. But then, I'm an old-fashioned guy. I don't like
What about Paul? (Score:5, Funny)
Does anyone know? [[shrugs]]
Notation in margin... (Score:5, Funny)
In fascist italy... (Score:5, Funny)
Awesome! (Score:4, Funny)
Sure, but... (Score:4, Funny)
what about the Necronomicon ? (Score:3, Funny)
Da Vinci's Notebook (Score:4, Funny)
Re:i'm sure... (Score:5, Funny)
Using Moore's Law and assuming today's fastest notebook is roughly 3GHz:
3 000 000 000 * ((1/2)^((2005 - 1508) / 1.5)) = 5.44313816 × 10-91 Hz
Important draft work (Score:5, Funny)
Let us give thanks to the FSM [wikipedia.org] for this miracle.
Re:Backward handwriting (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Important draft work (Score:4, Funny)
It's even more amazing when you think that Michelangelo did the Decorations of the Sistine Chapel!
The other notebook (Score:3, Funny)
Is it mirrored? (Score:3, Funny)