The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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Author: Leonardo da Vinci

1206.

Oh! speculators on perpetual motion how many vain projects of the like character you have created! Go and be the companions of the searchers for gold. [Footnote: Another short passage in MS. I, referring also to speculators, is given by LIBRI (Hist, des Sciences math. III, 228): Sicche voi speculatori non vi fidate delli autori che anno sol col immaginatione voluto farsi inter*preti tra la natura e l’omo, ma sol di quelli che non coi cienni della natura, ma cogli effetti delle sue esperienze anno esercitati i loro ingegni.]

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Chicago: Leonardo da Vinci, "1206.," The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, trans. Richter, Jean Paul, 1847-1937 in The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1970), Original Sources, accessed September 24, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=HE9DBQF1SVATFRG.

MLA: Vinci, Leonardo da. "1206." The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, translted by Richter, Jean Paul, 1847-1937, in The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1970, Original Sources. 24 Sep. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=HE9DBQF1SVATFRG.

Harvard: Vinci, LD, '1206.' in The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, trans. . cited in 1970, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Dover Publications, Inc., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 24 September 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=HE9DBQF1SVATFRG.