The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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V.  
ON THE RESISTANCE OF BEAMS.  
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93.  
That angle will offer the greatest resistance which is most acute,  
and the most obtuse will be the weakest.  
[Footnote: The three smaller sketches accompany the text in the  
original, but the larger one is not directly connected with it. It  
is to be found on fol. 89a of the same Manuscript and there we read  
in a note, written underneath, coverchio della perdicha del  
castello (roof of the flagstaff of the castle),--Compare also Pl.  
XCIII, No. 1.]  
7
94.  
If the beams and the weight o are 100 pounds, how much weight will  
be wanted at ae to resist such a weight, that it may not fall  
down?  
7
95.  
ON THE LENGTH OF BEAMS.  
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