Quotation from: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Written by: Leonardo da Vinci


IF YOU HAVE TO MAKE A LARGE CAST.


If you have to make a cast of a hundred thousand pounds do it with
two furnaces and with 2000 pounds in each, or as much as 3000 pounds
at most.


738.


HOW TO PROCEED TO BREAK A LARGE MASS OF BRONZE.


If you want to break up a large mass of bronze, first suspend it,
and then make round it a wall on the four sides, like a trough of
bricks, and make a great fire therein. When it is quite red hot give
it a blow with a heavy weight raised above it, and with great force.

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