The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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the plank and the man will never go up again but must remain in his  
place till the man at the other end dashes up the board.  
[
Footnote: See Pl. XXIV, No. 3.]  
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87.  
Of delivering a blow to the right or left.  
[Footnote: Four sketches on Pl. XXIV, No. 1 belong to this passage.  
The rest of the sketches and notes on that page are of a  
miscellaneous nature.]  
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88.  
Why an impetus is not spent at once [but diminishes] gradually in  
some one direction? [Footnote 1: The paper has been damaged at the  
end of line 1.] The impetus acquired in the line a b c d is spent  
in the line d e but not so completely but that some of its force  
remains in it and to this force is added the momentum in the line d  
e with the force of the motive power, and it must follow than the  
impetus multiplied by the blow is greater that the simple impetus  
produced by the momentum d e.  
[
Footnote 8: The sketch No. 2 on Pl. XXIV stands, in the original,  
between lines 7 and 8. Compare also the sketches on Pl. LIV.] A man  
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