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The Codex Atlanticus is the largest collection of Leonardo's known documents. At the end of the 1500s in Madrid, the sculptor Pompeo Leoni created a curious and spectacular composition with numerous sheets and fragments containing Leonardo's almost total intellectual production, which represents every aspect of the Leonardo da Vinci genius: the passionate interest in mechanics and mathematics, the astronomy, physical geography, botany, chemistry and anatomy, as well as the visual arts. Drawings for innovative technical projects, hydraulic devices, weapons, fortifications, flying machines, boats and automatons, as well as studies with theoretical and practical annotations for The Adoration of the Magi, Leda and the Swan, and the Battle of Anghiari. Furthermore, inside, the projects for the equestrian monuments, never executed, to Francesco Sforza and Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, as well as the architectural projects for the urban renewal of Milan and the royal residence of Romorantin in France.