An earlier example of this sort of thing was Bill Gates' purchase of the Codex Leceister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester which was then digitized and released on a CD-ROM by Corbis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_(video_game)
which was quite engaging, but sadly trapped in the technology of the time --- anyone know of an updated version of it?
https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-1.jpg
wget https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-{1..1119}.jpg
wget https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-{1..1119}.jpgThere are a couple of scans of a 43-page Italian edition published by Ulrico Hoepli on the Archive: https://archive.org/details/codex-atlanticus-leonardo-da-vin... https://archive.org/details/codex-atlanticus-leonardo-da-vin... but they seem to be of very poor quality.
I'm done downloading now (with a sleep of 1 second between pages), and I have 1064125470 bytes of JPEG files, a very reasonably torrentable size. I'll see if I can put together a torrent and upload to the Archive and Commons...
1..1119 | % { iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-$_.jpg" -OutFile "000R-$_.jpg" }
1..1119 | % { iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-$_.jpg" -OutFile "000V-$_.jpg" }
for page in {1..1119}; do
iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000R-$page.jpg" -OutFile "000R-$page.jpg"
iwr "https://codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it/assets/2000/000V-$page.jpg" -OutFile "000V-$page.jpg"
done
apt install img2pdf
img2pdf *.jpg -o leonardo-da-book.pdf echo $(for page in {1..1119}; do for side in R V; do
echo "000$side-$page.jpg"; done; done)One of the fragmentary editions I linked on the Archive uses the .cbr Comic Book Reader format; perhaps that is a better format than .epub for high-resolution scans of every page?
It may be useful to use zip -Z store. JPEG data isn't going to get much benefit from another layer of LZ77.
The same author who wrote some other famous biographies. I know some people prefer other DaVinci's biographies. I didn't read others to be able to compare, but I really enjoyed this one.
It's like "Jesus of Nazareth"; you wouldn't talk about "other OfNazareth's biographies". Ain't grammatical.
Yes, modern surnames largely evolved from descriptive epithets added to distinguish different people of the same given name, but that doesn't retroactively transform the descriptive epithets of commonly applied to people who lived in the past into surnames for those people.
Wikipedia says that Leonardo da Vinci was properly Leonardo son of Piero from Vinci son of Antonio son of another Piero son of Guido. I'm not sure that moving to surnames was a mistake, you know.
Da Vinci is a shorthand that everyone will understand vs just calling him Leonardo. Writing Leonardo da Vinci will be more explicit but will come off much more formal and stilted.
That's not in common use, so wouldn't fall under descriptive linguistics. No English speaker was puzzled at whether Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was about someone else from Vinci's code. It's an established convention at this point.
– Coins: A journey through the Münzkabinett Berlin collection (one of the largest in the world). https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/coins/
– Theodor Fontane Marginalia: A visualization of Fontane’s marginalia and notes in his personal library. https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/ff/
> The notes on Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man image are in mirror writing. Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his personal notes in mirror writing, only using standard writing if he intended his texts to be read by others
When did this myth become so perpetuated? It's infuriating. I blame university administration. I can't think of any other reason to so firmly distinguish different areas of thought.