The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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m c is 1/3 of n m measuring from the outer corner of the eyelids  
to the letter c. b s will be equal to the width of the nostril.  
[Footnote: See Pl. XII.]  
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20.  
The distance between the centres of the pupils of the eyes is 1/3 of  
the face. The space between the outer corners of the eyes, that is  
where the eye ends in the eye socket which contains it, thus the  
outer corners, is half the face.  
The greatest width of the face at the line of the eyes is equal to  
the distance from the roots of the hair in front to the parting of  
the lips.  
[Footnote: There are, with this section, two sketches of eyes, not  
reproduced here.]  
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21.  
The nose will make a double square; that is the width of the nose at  
the nostrils goes twice into the length from the tip of the nose to  
the eyebrows. And, in the same way, in profile the distance from the  
extreme side of the nostril where it joins the cheek to the tip of  
the nose is equal to the width of the nose in front from one nostril  
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