6 Chapter 5 Wandering

Chapter 5 Wandering In 1499, when the French attacked, the duke lost his power. He fled Milan. Then, later on, he was captured. He died a prisoner in France. In December of that year, Leonardo left Milan, too. Salai went with him. So did another old friend. Leonardo did not have a real home again for sixteen years. He took very little with him as

1499年，法国进攻，公爵失去了权力。 他逃离了米兰。后来，他被捕了。 他死在法国的监狱里。 同年12月，莱昂纳多也离开了米兰。 撒莱和他同去。另一位老朋友也是如此。 列奥纳多再没有一个真正的家长达16年。 他随身带的东西很少

he traveled from place to place. Only the most important things did he keep with him. Like his notebooks. In Milan, he had started keeping notebooks full of drawings and ideas. Leonardo kept filling up notebooks for more than thirty years. His plan was to write an encyclopedia about everything. Like the horse statue, this was another great big project. And like the horse statue, it was a job he never completed. However, the notebooks are still priceless treasures. The pages are illustrated with beautiful drawings of everything that had

他从一个地方旅行到另一个地方。 他只带着最重要的东西。 比如他的笔记本。在米兰，他开始在笔记本上写满了绘画和想法。 列奥纳多三十多年来一直在写笔记。 他的计划是写一本关于一切的百科全书。 和马雕像一样，这是另一项伟大的工程。 就像马的雕像一样，这是一个他从未完成的工作。 然而，这些笔记本仍然是无价之宝。 书页上绘有美丽的图画，描绘了曾经发生过的一切

interested Leonardo. They are among the most beautiful drawings in the world. There probably were a total of about thirteen thousand notebook pages. But after his death, many pages were torn out and sold. Some notebooks were cut apart; some disappeared. Some were rediscovered hundreds of years later. Today, there are ten different collections of

感兴趣的达芬奇。它们是世界上最美丽的画作之一。 大概总共有一万三千页笔记本。 但在他死后，许多页被撕掉卖掉了。 一些笔记本被剪开了;一些消失了。 有些在几百年后被重新发现。 今天，有十种不同的收藏

Leonardo's notebook pages. Only half the pages—about six thousand pages—are known to exist. They are in different places all over the world. There is always the hope that someday more notebook pages will turn up. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, bought one collection of pages. It is all about water. It is called Codex Atlanticus. Sometimes it is displayed in museums. In it are drawings of waves and currents, drawings of ripples in water, drawings of a drop of water as it splashes into a puddle. (Leonardo's eyes were so sharp, he could see all

列奥纳多的笔记本。 只有一半的书页——大约6000页——是已知存在的。 他们在世界各地的不同地方。 总有希望有一天会出现更多的笔记本页面。 微软创始人比尔·盖茨(Bill Gates)购买了一套书页。 一切都与水有关。它被称为《大西洋抄本》。 有时它在博物馆展出。 画的是波浪和水流，画的是水中的涟漪，画的是一滴水溅进水坑。 列奥纳多的眼睛是如此锐利，他能看到一切

by himself what today's high-speed cameras can reveal.) There are experiments that Leonardo did with water.

今天的高速摄像机可以揭示的东西，他自己也能看到。)列奥纳多用水做了一些实验。

In all the notebooks, his handwriting is reversed. This is called mirror writing. A mirror must be held up to the writing before it reads correctly. Why did Leonardo write this way? Nobody knows. He was left-handed. So maybe writing this way came most easily to him. Or he may have wanted to make it hard for anybody else to read the pages. Maybe he worried that other people might steal his ideas. Maybe he just wanted to keep his ideas secret. Leonardo's interest in water went all the way back to his childhood, from the storms he saw. But water was only one of the subjects he planned to cover in his encyclopedia. He wanted to understand and explain light—what was it made of? He wanted to understand how eyesight works, why birds can fly, and all the different parts of the human body. He came up with a list of about twenty big subjects. Just one page of a notebook might have little drawings of bird wings and feathers, along with thoughts about music and ideas for new weapons or sketches on building dams. Leonardo never stuck to one subject. He'd go back and forth among many. The notebook pages are crammed with writing and

在所有的笔记本中，他的笔迹都是颠倒的。 这被称为镜像书写。 必须把镜子举到文字前面，才能正确读取。 为什么列奥纳多要这样写? 没有人知道。他是左撇子。 所以，也许这种写作方式对他来说是最容易的。 或者他可能是想让其他人很难读懂这些内容。 也许他担心别人会窃取他的想法。 也许他只是想对自己的想法保密。 列奥纳多对水的兴趣可以追溯到他的童年，从他看到的暴风雨开始。 但水只是他计划在他的百科全书中涵盖的主题之一。 他想要理解并解释光——它是由什么构成的? 他想了解视力是如何工作的，为什么鸟会飞，以及人类身体的所有不同部位。 他列出了大约20个大课题的清单。 就在笔记本的一页纸上，可能会有一些关于鸟翅膀和羽毛的小画，以及关于音乐和新武器的想法，或者关于建造水坝的草图。 列奥纳多从不拘泥于一个主题。 他在许多人中间来回穿梭。 笔记本上写满了字