{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0388.htm","path":"aor/dv/0388.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0388.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nWhy an impetus is not spent at once [but diminishes] gradually in some one direction? 193 The impetus acquired in the line a b c d is spent in the line d e but not so completely but that some of its force remains in it and to this force is added the momentum in the line d e with the force of the motive power, and it must follow than the impetus multiplied by the blow is greater that the simple impetus produced by the momentum d e.\n194 A man who has to deal a great blow with his weapon prepares himself with all his force on the opposite side to that where the spot is which he is to hit; and this is because a body as it gains in velocity gains in force against the object which impedes its motion.\n199:193 1: The paper has been damaged at the end of line 1.\n199:194 8: The sketch No. 2 on Pl. XXIV stands, in the original, between lines 7 and 8. Compare also the sketches on Pl. LIV.","title":"Vol. I: VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 388.","type":"page"}