The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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mouth, is the third of the distance from the parting of the lips to  
the bottom of the chin and is the twelfth part of the face. From the  
top to the bottom of the chin m n is the sixth part of the face  
and is the fifty fourth part of a man's height.  
From the farthest projection of the chin to the throat o p is  
equal to the space between the mouth and the bottom of the chin, and  
a fourth of the face.  
The distance from the top of the throat to the pit of the throat  
below q r is half the length of the face and the eighteenth part  
of a man's height.  
From the chin to the back of the neck s t, is the same distance as  
between the mouth and the roots of the hair, that is three quarters  
of the head.  
From the chin to the jaw bone v x is half the head and equal to  
the thickness of the neck in profile.  
The thickness of the head from the brow to the nape is once and 3/4  
that of the neck.  
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Footnote: The drawings to this text, lines 1-10 are on Pl. VII, No.  
I. The two upper sketches of heads, Pl. VII, No. 2, belong to lines  
1-14, and in the original are placed immediately below the sketches  
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