The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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written in ink upon the red chalk drawing and the outlines of the  
figures have in most places been inked over.]  
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57.  
OF THE LOINS, WHEN BENT.  
The loins or backbone being bent. The breasts are are always lower  
than the shoulderblades of the back.  
If the breast bone is arched the breasts are higher than the  
shoulderblades.  
If the loins are upright the breast will always be found at the same  
level as the shoulderblades.  
[Footnote: See Pl. XXII, No. 1.]  
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a b the tendon and ankle in raising the heel approach each other  
by a finger's breadth; in lowering it they separate by a finger's  
breadth.  
[
Footnote: See Pl. XXII, No. 2. Compare this facsimile and text with  
Pl. III, No. 2, and p. 152 of MANZI'S edition. Also with No. 274 of  
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