Image from page 89 of "Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;" (1898)

Identifier: leonardodavincia02mn.Title: Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidleonardodavincia02mn ) .Year: 1898 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1898 ) (1890s ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1890 ) ).Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorM__ntz__Eug__ne__1845_1902 ) .Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectLeonardo__da_Vinci__1452_1519 ) .Publisher: London : W. Heinemann ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___W__Heinemann ) New York, C. Scribner's sons ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisher_New_York__C__Scribner_s_sons ) .Contributing Library: University of California Libraries ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries ) .Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorInternet_Archive ) ...View Book Page: Book Viewer ( stream/leonardodavincia02mn/leonardodavincia02mn#page/n89/mode/1up ) .About This Book: Catalog Entry ( details/leonardodavincia02mn ) .View All Images: All Images From Book ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidleonardodavincia02mn ) ..Click here to view book online ( stream/leonardodavincia02mn/leonardodavincia02mn#page/n89/mode/1up ) to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book....Text Appearing Before Image:.sciences. Rustici, who had the honour to entertain Leo-nardo da Vinci for six months in his house in theVia dei INIartelli, may have had eccentric hobbies,but there is no stain on the respectability andeven nobility of his character. It was not so with another ofLeonardos pupils, Zoroastro da Peretola. The very name is arevelation ! This individual was but fifteen years old when Leonardo, thenoccupied with the Battle of Anghiari, engaged him as a colour-grinder ; he only gave way to his taste for occult practices andmystification in general at a later period of his life. Devoted toalchemy, astrology, chiromancy, physiognomy, and a hundred similarpursuits, he had collected a whole arsenal of seals, philacteries, Epigraphy is a sublime art, hut nolhiii,^ lies like an Lpitaph ! Zoroastros nephewthus celebrates the rare aptitude of his uncle for penetrating into the secrets of natiu-e :In eo genere pliilosopliiœ quod ad uatune obsciiritateiii special, iiatiinc ipsius bcncfidoadmirabilis...Text Appearing After Image:.sketch illustratingLeonardos scienti-fic WRITINGS. (Library of the Institut deFrance.) ZOROASTRO DA IF.RETOLA 6S amulets, bells, crucibles for the distillation of herbs, earths, metals,stones, woods ; he possessed skins of animals born before their time( carta non nata ), eyes of lynxes, the saliva of mad dogs, spinesof the pcsce Colombo, dead mens bones, ropes with which menhad been hanged, swords and daggers with which murders had beendone, the collar-bone and the knife of Solomon, herbs and seedscollected under different phases of the moon, and under various con-stellations, and a mass ofother favole e chiac-chiere destined to terrifythe intellectually weak. One of Zoroastroscompatriots, Lasca, hasmade him the hero oftwo of his tales. Hebrinsfs him on to the stagneas a man between thirty-six and forty years old,with strongly-markedfeatures, a significant eye,and a long black beardfalling in disorder overhis chest. In company with three lively companions, the goldsmith Scheggia, the.