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Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)

New Books in the History of Science

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Leonardo Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Leonardo manuscripts and works on paper are kept between thin, thin slices of pieces of perspex right mounted within a cardboard archival. Not cardboard but you know an archival paper mount. And that whole apparatus was brought to the Seattle Art Museum and their conservation lab. Domenico Lorenzo shared time with me so I think it was over two days from remembering rightly that I was able to look at them.

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