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Marina Amaral

2 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read

Da Vinci’s to-do list, circa 1490:

- Calculate the measurement of Milan and Suburbs
- Find a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio
- Get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle

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- Ask Benedetto Potinari (a Florentine merchant) by what means they go on ice in Flanders
- Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are positioned on bastions by day or night
- Examine the Crossbow of Mastro Giannetto

- Try to get Vitolone (the medieval author of a text on optics), which is in the Library at Pavia, which deals with the mathematics
- Ask about the measurement of the sun promised me by Maestro Giovanni Francese

- Draw Milan

“Draw Milan” - as simple as that

- buy tomatoes

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