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drawings, is his written Treatise on Painting, of which an edition was published in Paris in 1651 (McCurdy 1939). However, it is his drawings that demonstrate exquisite visual problem solving—whether it applied to preliminary preparations for painting and sculpture, observations of nature, or sketches for planned inventions. These countless sketches include many subjects: the observation of the movements of water and wind, weaponry concepts, physics, botany, music, irrigation systems, architecture, studies for portraits and sculptures, details of human anatomical dissections, a plan for an underwater diving system, optics, mathematics, astronomy, observations of animals in movement, landscapes, and insects (da Vinci
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