Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks
The London Museum of Victoria and Albert laid out free access to notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci. The site of the museum contains five notebooks, combined into three small volumes. The records are dated from 1487 to 1508. They present sketches of the great scientist in such industries as architecture, geometry, hydraulic engineering, measurement of solids, as well as drawings of costumes, parts of the human body and much more:
(Left) Codex Forster I (folio 7 recto) and (Right) Codex Forster I (folio 43 verso), Leonardo da Vinci, late 15th – early 16th century, Italy. Museum no. MSL/1876/Forster/141/I. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London