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You must first propound the theory and then explain the practice.
You must first propound the theory and then explain the practice.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1486 AD · medieval
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- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1486 AD · medieval
author lifetime midpoint (1452–1519); not quotation composition date
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- Thoughts on Art and Life (1906 English edition) (1906 AD)
Thoughts on Science, complete printed unit 2; Maurice Baring translation; Boston: The Merrymount Press,1906
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Represented by the complete source-numbered selections in Thoughts on Art and Life, Maurice Baring’s1906English translation, edited by Lewis Einstein. The catalogue records1452–1519; the historical collection is a selection from notebooks, not a continuous book composed by Leonardo or independent authentication of every attributed passage.
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