{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0395.htm","path":"aor/dv/0395.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0395.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nEvery year when the boughs of a plant [or tree] have made an end of maturing their growth, they will have made, when put together, a thickness equal to that of the main stem; and at every stage of its ramification you will find the thickness of the said main stem; as: i k, g h, e f, c d, a b, will always be equal to each other; unless the tree is pollard--if so the rule does not hold good.\nAll the branches have a direction which tends to the centre of the tree m.\n205:200 : The two sketches of leafless trees one above another on the left hand side of Pl. XXVII, No. 1, belong to this passage.","title":"Vol. I: VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 395.","type":"page"}