The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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weight of the man he carries. Hence many persons think it wonderful  
that, in running, the horse can rest on one single foot. From this  
it may be stated that when a weight is in progressive motion the  
more rapid it is the less is the perpendicular weight towards the  
centre.  
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73.  
If a man, in taking a jump from firm ground, can leap 3 braccia, and  
when he was taking his leap it were to recede 1/3 of a braccio, that  
would be taken off his former leap; and so if it were thrust forward  
1/3 of a braccio, by how much would his leap be increased?  
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74.  
OF DRAWING.  
When a man who is running wants to neutralise the impetus that  
carries him on he prepares a contrary impetus which is generated by  
his hanging backwards. This can be proved, since, if the impetus  
carries a moving body with a momentum equal to 4 and the moving body  
wants to turn and fall back with a momentum of 4, then one momentum  
neutralises the other contrary one, and the impetus is neutralised.  
Of walking up and down (375-379)  
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