Leonardo da Vinci's Work Algorithms

A Newton-project-style 300-case reconstruction of Leonardo's methods across painting theory, notebooks, codices, anatomy, optics, mechanics, hydraulics, geometry, flight, geology, and manuscript transmission. Each case is treated as a lecture-style thesis/result unit and tagged by overlapping strategies, so prevalence percentages do not sum to 100%.

33 strategies300 casesNavy · Grey · GoldPainting · Anatomy · Machines · Codices
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Strategy decision tree

Leonardo's surviving corpus is not a modern paper bibliography. This reconstruction treats published codices, posthumous treatise sections, folio clusters, notebook topics, and manuscript groups as lecture-style cases. A single case may use several strategies at once.

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Overlapping prevalence ranking

Bar width is case prevalence: count divided by 300. Since each case carries three strategy tags, these percentages are overlapping evidence rates, not a probability simplex.

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300 paper / book-chapter / codex-section cases

#YearSourceLecture-style caseMain thesisResultStrategies
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Source spine

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Worked reconstructions

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Methodological note

This page is a derived bibliographic and methodological reconstruction, not a reproduction of Leonardo's notebooks, drawings, or treatises. The phrase “published” is used broadly: Leonardo left most writings in notebooks and codices; many were compiled, dispersed, edited, printed, translated, or digitized posthumously. The 300 cases are therefore codex-folio, treatise-section, notebook-cluster, and manuscript-theme cases.