Index
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Abbaco, Benedetto dell’, 5
Adda river, 124
“Adoration of the Magi,” 29, 30
Adriatic, the, 62, 93
“Air conditioner,” 69
Air, study of, 65, 66, 99
“Alarm clock,” 57
Albert of Saxony, 81
Alessandria, fortress of, 83
Alfonso of Calabria, 38
Alps, the, 37, 67
Amadeo, Antonio, 58
Amadori, Albiera di Giovanni, 2
Amadori, Alessandro, 3, 111
Amboise, see Chateau d’Amboise
Amontons, 134
Anatomy, human, 52, 53, 107, 109, 119, 125-127, 138
Anchiano, 2
Anemometer, 65, 66
Anemoscope, 65
Anghiari, battle of, 103, 110, 113
Aquadello, 124
Aquila, Battista dell’, 139
Arabs, the, 54
Archimedes, 41, 67, 81, 134
Architecture, 50, 58
Argyropoulos, John, 17
Aristotle, 17, 23, 42, 48, 81, 89
Arithmetic, 77
Arithmetico, Benedetto, 16
Armored vehicle, 39, 40
Arno river, 25, 31, 96, 100-106, 109
Arrezzo, 93
Ascanio, Cardinal, 83
Astronomy, 80-82, 104, 105
Atlantic Ocean, 19
“Automobile,” 32, 33
Autopsies, 107
Avicenna, 53
B
Bacon, Francis, 160
Bacon, Roger, 120
Badia, the, 7
Battista, 155, 157
Bayzid II, 94
Beatis, Antonio de’, 151
Bianca Maria, 64
Bible, the, 62, 104, 141
Birds, flight of, 24, 65, 66, 76, 99, 119
Black Death, see Bubonic plague
Blois, 152
Bologna, 144
Bombard, 26
Bombs, 39
Borgia, Cesare, 82, 86-97, 102, 139
Borgias, the, 102
Botticelli, Sandro, 33
Boureau, Guillaume, 156
Bramante, 68, 131
Bridge building, 95
Bubonic plague, 45-47
Buonarroti, Michelangelo, see Michelangelo
C
“Camera obscura,” 55
Campo Morto, battle of, 38
165
Cannon, 26, 33, 41
Caravaggio, siege of, 124
Cardano, Girolamo, 113
Carles, Geffroy, 115, 116
Carpentry, 135, 136
Cassano, castle of, 124
Castel’ Sant’ Angelo, 130
Caterina, 2
Cellini, Benvenuto, 100
Centrifugal pump, 121, 122
Cesena, 94
Chambord, castle of, 152
Charles d’Amboise, 94, 114-117, 121, 124, 127, 139
Chateau d’Amboise, 147-156
Cher river, 152
Christ, 30, 74, 77, 78
Church of the Annunciation of the Servite Order of Monks, 90
Church, the, 18, 48, 53, 63, 104, 145
Cioni, Andrea di Michele di Francesco de’, see Verrochio, Andrea del
City Planning, 44, 45, 47
City-states, 9, 10
Civitavecchia, 143, 144
Cloux, Manoir de, 148, 154, 156
Coins, minting of, 47
Collections, 4
Columbus, Christopher, 19
Constantinople, 95
Corte, Bernardino da, 83
Corte Vecchia, 56
Coulomb, A. C., 17, 134
Council of Eighty, 109
Council of Florence, 23, 106
Councilors and Tribunal of Venice, 89
Credi, Lorenzo di, 13
Cusanus, Cardinal, 42
D
Dams, 101
Danti, Giovanni Battista, 96, 97
d’Aragona, Cardinal Luigi, 151
Darwin, 105
d’Auvergne, Madelaine, 153
David, statue of, 106
De Ludo Geometrico, 134
d’Este, Beatrice, 60, 61, 69, 86
d’Este, Isabella, 86, 87, 91
Diocletian, Emperor, 135
Diseases, 109
Dissection, 53, 126, 145
Diver’s suit, 89
Drawing, see Painting
Drum, mechanical, 61
Dynamics, 140
E
Earth, the, 104, 105
Eclipse of the sun, 48
Einstein, 153
Equilibrium, 141
Euclid, 54, 91
Eye, the, 54, 55
F
Ferdinand, King of Naples, 25, 27
Ferrara, 70
Ferrari, Ambrogio, 42
Fiesole, 111, 113, 156
Flemish painters, 15
Flight,
of arrow, 82, 83
of birds, 24, 65, 66, 76, 99, 119
problems of, 70, 71, 75, 76, 96-100, 111-113
Florence, 7-19, 25-27, 32, 38, 53, 68, 93-96, 100-103
Flying machine, 70, 71, 75, 76, 112
Foix, Gaston de, 127
Forts, 88
Forum of the Caesars, 134
Four elements, 48
France, 67-69, 78, 82-84, 94, 114-120, 125, 127, 128, 139, 142-145, 152
Francis I, 143-145, 148-157
Fraternity of the Immaculate Conception, 43, 44, 47
Friction, 140, 141
G
Galen, 52, 53
Galileo, Galilei, 134, 141, 160
Genoa, 143
Geocentric theory, see Ptolemaic theory
Geography, 18, 19
Geology, 103, 104
Geometry, 91, 134
Georg, 131, 133, 140, 143, 145
Geotropism, 79
166
Germany, 47, 69
Ghirlandaio, Domenico di Tommaso del, 33
Giocondo, Francesco del, 98
Giovanni “the Piper,” 100
Gonzaga, Francesco, 86
Gothic tradition, 50
Gravity, 140, 141
Greeks, the, 69
Guido, 23
Guild, 19
H
Hadrian, Emperor, 130
Harvey, William, 126, 160
Heavens, observation of, 80
Heliocentric theory, 48, 81
Heliotropism, 79
Highmore, 53
Hippocrates, 52
Holy Roman Empire, 9
Hooke, Robert, 141
Horse, anatomy of the, 41
Hydraulic pump, 74, 122, 123
Hydraulics, 14
Hydrodynamics, 141
Hygrometer, 30, 31
I
Imola, 95, 96
Inclination gauge, 66, 67
India, 18
Introduction to Perspective, or the Function of the Eye, 58
Inventions, 25-27, 38-40
Irradiation, 55
Irrigation, 101
Isabella of Aragon, 51
Isonzo river, 88
Istanbul, see Constantinople
J
Johannes, 133, 143, 145
Judas, 74, 77, 78
K
King Charles VIII, 67-69, 78, 82, 120, 148
L
Lake Como, 125
Lamps, 59
Lanfredini, Francesca, 2, 7
“Last Supper,” 30, 72, 74, 77, 92, 99, 138
League of Cambria, 124
Leghorn, 100
Leibig, 41
Leonardo da Vinci,
and the Church, 18, 48, 104, 145
birth of, 2
death of, 157
early years of, 1-8
illness of, 142, 150
moves to Florence, 10
notebooks of, 25, 29, 140, 152, 159, 160
Levite, 118
Light and Shade, 54
Lighting, 59
Lilienthal, Otto, 100
Livoli river, 139
Loches, 92
Loire river, 147, 149, 152
Lombardy, 37, 62, 78, 82, 83, 121,148
Louis XII (of Orleans), 78, 82, 92, 94, 114, 116, 119, 124, 142, 157
Louvre, the, 44
Lucullus, 130
Lyons, 152
Lyre, silver, 34, 35
M
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 96, 100, 102, 106, 109
Machine gun, 27
Machinery, improvement of, 16
Madonna Lisa, see Mona Lisa
Malaria, 139
Mandeville, Sir John, 103
Manenti, 88
Mantua, 84, 86, 87
Mapmaking, 19, 93, 95, 96, 100, 101
Martelli, Piero, 118
Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 58
Martino river, 139
Mathurine, 156, 157
Maximilian I, 64
Medici, Giovanni de’, 130
Medici, Giuliano de’, 21, 130, 132, 138-146
Medici, Lorenzo de’, 16, 21, 26, 27, 29, 35, 39, 127, 130, 132, 146, 153
Medici, Piero de’, 10, 16
Medicis, the, 10, 21, 23, 26, 27, 33, 34, 68, 130, 131, 140, 142, 146
167
Melzi, Francesco de’, 117, 128, 130, 140, 142, 145, 150, 155, 157, 158
Michelangelo, 106, 107, 113, 131, 137, 144, 145
Middle Ages, 81, 104
Migliorotti, Atalante, 35-38, 87
Milan, 9, 33-48, 60, 64, 68, 78, 82, 83, 85, 95, 114-128, 143, 144
Milan cathedral, 50
Military,
defenses, 88, 89
machines, 25-27, 33, 38-40
Millstones, 75
Mitre valve, 123
Mirrors, 133
“Mona Lisa,” 99, 103
Monferrato, 62
Monte Albano, 1, 2, 5
Monte Cecero, 113
Montorfano, 72
Muscles, 109, 119
Music, 34, 35
N
Naples, 9, 27, 68, 69
Needle sharpener, 75
Netherlands, the, 95
Newton, Isaac, 24, 56, 123, 141, 160
Newton’s First Law of Motion, 123
Newton’s law of gravitation, 83
Notes, 14
Novara, battle of, 92
O
Odometer, 69
Oggionno, Marco d’, 58
Orient, the, 89
Ornithopter, 111, 112
P
Pacioli, Fra Luca, 76, 77, 80, 84, 86-91, 133
Padua, 125
Painting, 4-7, 29-32, 43, 44, 71, 72, 91, 99, 105, 110, 112
Palatine hill, 135
Palazzo della Signoria, 12, 21-25, 103
Palazzo Vecchio, 12
Parachute, 71
Paris, 44
Parma, 138
Pater, Walter, 161
Pavia, 51, 58, 125
Pazzi conspiracy, 21, 23, 25
Pazzi, Francesco de’, 23
Pera, 95
“Periscope,” the, 89
Perugia, 96
Perugino, Pietro, 13, 33, 107
Pesaro, 93
Peschiera, 124
Pharisee, 118
Philiberta, 142
Phyllotaxis, 79
Physics, 17
Piazzetta, the, 87
Pincio hill, 130
Piombino, 93, 139, 154
Pisa, 25, 100-102, 110
Pitti Palace, 31
Plague, see Bubonic plague
Plants, study of, 79, 80
Platonic school, 54
Pliny, 23
Plutarch, 81
Pollaiuolo, 53
Ponte Vecchio, 31
Pontine marshes, 139, 154
Pope Alexander VI, 82, 92, 102
Pope Innocent VIII, 63
Pope Julius II, 124, 127, 128, 130, 131
Pope Leo X, 130-132, 139, 142-146, 153
Pope Sixtus IV, 21, 33
Porta del Popolo, 129
Porta Romana, 29
Porta Vercellina, 79, 115
Porto Cesanatico, 94
Portugal, 26
Predis, Bernardino de, 47
Predis, Giovanni Ambrogio de, 43, 44, 47, 56
Ptolemaic theory, 48
Ptolemy, 23, 54, 103
Q
Queen Claude, 152
R
Raphael, 107, 131, 137
Ravenna, battle of, 127
Red Book of the Painters of Florence, 19
168
Reflection, law of, 56
Renaissance, 89, 104, 125, 161
Riario, Girolamo, 21, 38
Rimini, 93
Rome, 9, 33, 47, 69, 128-146
Romorantin, 150, 152
Rosate, Ambrogio da, 63
Rumford, 56
Rustici, Giovanni, 118
S
“St. Anne with the Virgin and Child,” 91, 92
St. Augustine, 42
Saint-Denis church, 157
St. Germain-en-Laye, 157
Saint-Hubert, chapel of, 153, 157
St. John, 118, 154
St. John the Baptist, 151
St. Luke, 19
St. Mary of the Virgin, 96
St. Peter’s, church of, 131
Salai, 86, 115
Salviati, Francesco, 21
San Bernardo, chapel of, 23
San Cristoforo, 157
San Donato a Scopeto, 29
San Lorenzo, 144, 145
San Marco, Little Square of, 87
Sanseverino, Galeazzo da, 82, 83
Sant’ Onofrio, hospital, 107
Santa Croce, church of, 107
Santa Maria delle Grazie, 71, 78
Santa Maria Novella, 107
Sanzio, Raffaello, see Raphael
Savoy, 142
Scarlione, Bartolommeo degli, 43
Sculpture, 41, 49, 52-54, 58-64, 118
Sforza, Duke Gian Galeazzo, 51, 56, 68, 120
Sforza, Francesco, 41, 47, 49, 61, 64
Sforza, Francesco (child), 68
Sforza, Ludovico, 33-47, 51, 52, 56, 57, 60-72, 76-79, 82-84, 92, 115, 117, 120, 138, 146, 154
Sforza monument, 49-59, 61, 64, 120
Sforzas, the, 40, 56, 57, 71, 79, 83, 117, 120, 154
Shells, 62, 63
Signoria, the, 96, 100-106, 110, 114, 116
Sistine Chapel, 33, 132, 137
Soderini, Piero, 103, 106, 109, 114-116
Sologne, 154
Spain, 18, 69, 127, 139, 142, 143
Statics, 140
Steam, 41
Strabo, 23, 103, 104
Swiss, 127, 128, 143
T
Ticino gate, 44
Torre, Marcantonio della, 125, 128
Toscanelli, Paolo del Pozzo, 18, 19, 42, 93
Touraine, 92
Trivulzio, Marshal Gian Giacomo, 120, 121, 125, 128, 143
Turks, the, 87-90, 94
Tuscany, 93
Tyrrhenian coast, 143
U
Uffizi Gallery, 25, 32
University of Padua, 125
University of Pavia, 63
Urbino, 93
V
Valentinois, Duke of, see Borgia, Cesare
Valois, Marguerite de, 150
Vatican, the, 47, 130-145
Venice, 9, 69, 87-89, 124, 125, 127
Verrochio, Andrea del, 7, 12-19, 23, 118
Via Ghibellina, 90
Vigevano, 68, 75
Vinci, 2, 13
Vinci, da, Giuliano, 117
Vinci, da, Piero, 2-7, 10, 12, 90, 106, 117
“Virgin of the Rocks,” 44
Vitellozzo, 93
Vitruvius, 77
W
Water, study of, 67, 101, 102, 121, 122
Watt, James, 160
Witelo, 58
Y
Yugoslavia, 88
