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XXII. Miscellaneous Notes: 1481.

1481.

On the increase of the Nile, a small book by Aristotle. 820


Footnotes

  1. 447:820

    : De inundatione Nili, is quoted here and by others as a work of Aristotle. The Greek original is lost, but a Latin version of the beginning exists (Arist. Opp. IV p. 213 ed. Did. Par.).

    In his quotations from Aristotle Leonardo possibly refers to one of the following editions:

    Aristotelis libri IV de coelo et mundo; de anima libri III; libri VIII physi- corum; libri de generatione et corruptione; de sensu et sensato... omnia latine, interprete Averroe, Venetiis 1483 (first Latin edition). There is also a separate edition of Liber de coelo et mundo, dated 1473.

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