The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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la statua would then mean, you must work out the figure in marble.  
If this interpretation is the correct one, this passage would have  
no right to find a place in the series on anatomical studies. I may  
say that it was originally inserted in this connection under the  
impression that di cresciere should be read descrivere.]  
Plans for the representation of muscles by drawings (803-809).  
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03.  
You must show all the motions of the bones with their joints to  
follow the demonstration of the first three figures of the bones,  
and this should be done in the first book.  
8
04.  
Remember that to be certain of the point of origin of any muscle,  
you must pull the sinew from which the muscle springs in such a way  
as to see that muscle move, and where it is attached to the  
ligaments of the bones.  
NOTE.  
You will never get any thing but confusion in demonstrating the  
muscles and their positions, origin, and termination, unless you  
first make a demonstration of thin muscles after the manner of linen  
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