Sacred Texts  Age of Reason  Index 
XVII. Topographical Notes Index
  Previous  Next 
Buy this Book at Amazon.com

The Da Vinci Notebooks at sacred-texts.com

1028.

Stair of Vigevano below La Sforzesca, 130 steps, 1/4 braccio high and 1/2 braccio wide, down which the water falls, so as not to wear away anything at the end of its fall; by these steps so much soil has come down that it has dried up a pool; that is to say it has filled it up and a pool of great depth has been turned into meadows.


Next: 1029.