The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Relative proportion of the hand and foot.  
The foot is as much longer than the hand as the thickness of the arm  
at the wrist where it is thinnest seen facing.  
Again, you will find that the foot is as much longer than the hand  
as the space between the inner angle of the little toe to the last  
projection of the big toe, if you measure along the length of the  
foot.  
The palm of the hand without the fingers goes twice into the length  
of the foot without the toes.  
If you hold your hand with the fingers straight out and close  
together you will find it to be of the same width as the widest part  
of the foot, that is where it is joined onto the toes.  
And if you measure from the prominence of the inner ancle to the end  
of the great toe you will find this measure to be as long as the  
whole hand.  
From the top angle of the foot to the insertion of the toes is equal  
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