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The Age of Reason

Vol. I: VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 366.

Codex AtlanticusInventions and EngineeringLeonardo da VinciRenaissance Science

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Vol. I: IX. The Practice of Painting: 538. Similar meaning (68%) Vol. I: II. Linear Perspective: 104. Similar meaning (67%) Vol. I: VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 333. Similar meaning (66%) Vol. I: VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 334. Similar meaning (65%)
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The Da Vinci Notebooks Every part of the whole must be in proportion to the whole. Thus, if a man is of a stout short figure he will be the same in all his parts: that is with short and thick arms, wide thick hands, with short fingers with their joints of the same character, and so on with the rest. I would have the same thing understood as applying to all animals and plants; in diminishing, [the various parts] do so in due proportion to the size, as also in enlarging.

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