# Notebooks and Engineering

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Leonardo's notebooks explore machines, hydraulics, fortifications, architecture, and flight through diagrams and notes. They demonstrate inventive analysis, but many famous devices were concepts or adaptations on paper rather than machines he built and tested.

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