Anna Aslanyan

Always carry a little book with you, and preserve it with great care, said Leonardo da Vinci

Despite the digitisation of everything, many of us still choose to jot down thoughts and sketches on paper, and would be bereft without a notebook to hand

Sketch of the shoulder and arm muscles and the bones of the foot, from Leonardo da Vinci’s s notebooks, 1510-11. [Getty Images]
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