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The Age of Reason

Vol. I: VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 331.

Codex AtlanticusInventions and EngineeringLeonardo da VinciRenaissance Science

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The Da Vinci Notebooks m n o are equal. The narrowest width of the leg seen in front goes 8 times from the sole of the foot to the joint of the knee, and is the same width as the arm, seen in front at the wrist, and as the longest measure of the ear, and as the three chief divisions into which we divide the face; and this measurement goes 4 times from the wrist joint of the hand to the point of the elbow. [14] The foot is as long as the space from the knee between a and b; and the patella of…