Leonardo scrisse il seguito riguardo alla fisiologia del corpo umano…
da Vinci wrote the following about what he perceived as the beautiful physiology of the human body:
Benché l’ingegnosità umana faccia le invenzioni varie, rispondedo coi vari strumenti a un medesimo fine, mai esso troverà l’inventione più bella, né più facile, né più breve della Natura…
Although human ingenuity may make various inventions (by means of various machines responding towards a common goal), it will never find an invention more beautiful, simpler, or more to the point than that which is made by Nature…
Translation Notes:
Leonardo apparently makes the following contractions in the original passage:
-Coi → co
-Un → u
He also makes the following vowel insertion (a process known as diphthongization and reminiscent of Spanish, where it is commonly found):
-Breve → brieve
