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excepting in its length, and its ends are two points. The angle is
the junction of two lines in a point.
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A point is not part of a line.
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OF THE NATURAL POINT.
The smallest natural point is larger than all mathematical points,
and this is proved because the natural point has continuity, and any
thing that is continuous is infinitely divisible; but the
mathematical point is indivisible because it has no size.
[Footnote: This definition was inserted by Leonardo on a MS. copy on
parchment of the well-known "Trattato d'Architettura civile e
militare" &c. by FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO; opposite a passage where the
author says: 'In prima he da sapere che punto è quella parie della
quale he nulla--Linia he luncheza senza àpieza; &c.]
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5.
, The superficies is a limitation of the body. 2, and the
limitation of a body is no part of that body. 4, and the limitation
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