This is because they are more like proto-rough drafts and jumbled and random writings and not a clear cut vision for an actual book. He left most to his assistant Melzi, but after that they were spread around from Country to Country, person to person, collection to collection, and while there have been some attempts to compile them they still refuse to come together in much of a cohesive way. At one point he would have realized that the best option would be to give up his intent on publishing and instead leave his notebooks behind for other's to manage. To go back and try to re-read, re-write, and attempt to organize any of the dozens of books he intended to write would have taken away from him writing new information. The main reason he censored himself and didn't publish his writings was because of their "Heretical" themes - he could have been punished as Galileo was (He was writing about the same things a hundred years before him!)Īnother less practical reason was the sheer amount of content and his erratic way of writing. Da Vinci did leave behind some notes and brainstorming on the books he intended to write but most of which repeated, changed, and were abandoned. The main translations were taken from those available and then placed into an order that the translator decided upon. There are only around 1/4 that survived and still number in the thousands if not hundreds of thousands of pages. This is one of the most intriguing aspects about his written works. Leonardo planned to publish many books but only ever co-published one about proportion that he illustrated.
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