{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0378.htm","path":"aor/dv/0378.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0378.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nThe sinew which guides the leg, and which is connected with the patella of the knee, feels it a greater labour to carry the man upwards, in proportion as the leg is more bent; and the muscle which acts\nupon the angle made by the thigh where it joins the body has less difficulty and has a less weight to lift, because it has not the [additional] weight of the thigh itself. And besides this it has stronger muscles, being those which form the buttock.","title":"Vol. I: VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 378.","type":"page"}