{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0332.htm","path":"aor/dv/0332.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0332.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nOn the central point of the whole body.In kneeling down a man will lose the fourth part of his height.\nWhen a man kneels down with his hands folded on his breast the navel will mark half his height and likewise the points of the elbows.\nHalf the height of a man who sits--that is from the seat to the top of the head--will be where the arms fold below the breast, and below the shoulders. The seated portion--that is from the seat to the top of the head--will be more than half the man's [whole height] by the length of the scrotum.\n179:154 : See Pl. VIII, No. 2.","title":"Vol. I: VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 332.","type":"page"}