A treatise on painting . /J 112. BY LEONARDO DA VINCI. IIJ A man, in walking, has the center of his^f^»™gravity over that of the leg which is fet on ^the <jround. Rell, or privation of motion in any animal, of theequiii-arifes from the equality, or privation of inequa- aimai ftaildinglity, between the oppolite weights; which, asotsf« occaiion it to move by their inequality, fothey keep it fufpended, and at reft, by theirequality. That lide of the body, on which a man bends, of the bendsis diminiflied in proportion as thcoppofite fide jj,^^^]^?^is increafed ; and the bending or
A treatise on painting . /J 112. BY LEONARDO DA VINCI. IIJ A man, in walking, has the center of his^f^»™gravity over that of the leg which is fet on ^the <jround. Rell, or privation of motion in any animal, of theequiii-arifes from the equality, or privation of inequa- aimai ftaildinglity, between the oppolite weights; which, asotsf« occaiion it to move by their inequality, fothey keep it fufpended, and at reft, by theirequality. That lide of the body, on which a man bends, of the bendsis diminiflied in proportion as thcoppofite fide jj,^^^]^?^is increafed ; and the bending or Hexure of this may, at lafl, come to be in a fubdupleratio to the ftretching of the other. But thisfhall be confidercd in a particular treatifc. As much as one lide of any flexible member or the flexure^!is lengthened, fo much its oppofirc one is flicrt- ° ^*^* °^ ^?^- o i i. members* ened: but the central line, bemg without thefide that is not bent, in a member that is, nevergains or lofcs of its length. Every
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