The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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and the roots of the hair a b; and equal to five sixths of the  
face.  
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26.  
a d is a head's length, c b is a head's length. The four smaller  
toes are all equally thick from the nail at the top to the bottom,  
and are 1/13 of the foot.  
[Footnote: See Pl. XIV, No. 1, a drawing of a foot with the text in  
three lines below it.]  
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27.  
The whole length of the foot will lie between the elbow and the  
wrist and between the elbow and the inner angle of the arm towards  
the breast when the arm is folded. The foot is as long as the whole  
head of a man, that is from under the chin to the topmost part of  
the head[Footnote 2: nel modo che qui i figurato. See Pl. VII, No.  
4, the upper figure. The text breaks off at the end of line 2 and  
the text given under No. 321 follows below. It may be here remarked  
that the second sketch on W. P. 311 has in the original no  
explanatory text.] in the way here figured.  
Proportions of the leg (328-331).  
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