Leveled Readings / Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks on Experience and Nature (c. 1490-1519)
Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks on Experience and Nature (c. 1490-1519)
Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks (Richter no. 1153)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”
Adapted · about grade 4
Leonardo said experience is never wrong. Mistakes come when people expect results their tests did not show.
Adapted · about grade 7
Experience is never wrong; only our judgments are wrong, when we expect results that our experiments did not actually cause.
Adapted · about grade 10
Experience never errs; only your judgments err, by promising themselves results that are not caused by your experiments.
Used in: What was new about the Renaissance?