The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 360 pages of information about The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 360 pages of information about The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1.

And if you measure from the prominence of the inner ancle to the end of the great toe you will find this measure to be as long as the whole hand.

From the top angle of the foot to the insertion of the toes is equal to the hand from wrist joint to the tip of the thumb.

The smallest width of the hand is equal to the smallest width of the foot between its joint into the leg and the insertion of the toes.

The width of the heel at the lower part is equal to that of the arm where it joins the hand; and also to the leg where it is thinnest when viewed in front.

The length of the longest toe, from its first division from the great toe to its tip is the fourth of the foot from the centre of the ancle bone to the tip, and it is equal to the width of the mouth.  The distance between the mouth and the chin is equal to that of the knuckles and of the three middle fingers and to the length of their first joints if the hand is spread, and equal to the distance from the joint of the thumb to the outset of the nails, that is the fourth part of the hand and of the face.

The space between the extreme poles inside and outside the foot called the ancle or ancle bone a b is equal to the space between the mouth and the inner corner of the eye.

325.

The foot, from where it is attached to the leg, to the tip of the great toe is as long as the space between the upper part of the chin and the roots of the hair a b; and equal to five sixths of the face.

326.

a d is a head’s length, c b is a head’s length.  The four smaller toes are all equally thick from the nail at the top to the bottom, and are 1/13 of the foot.

[Footnote:  See Pl.  XIV, No. 1, a drawing of a foot with the text in three lines below it.]

327.

The whole length of the foot will lie between the elbow and the wrist and between the elbow and the inner angle of the arm towards the breast when the arm is folded.  The foot is as long as the whole head of a man, that is from under the chin to the topmost part of the head[Footnote 2:  nel modo che qui i figurato.  See Pl.  VII, No. 4, the upper figure.  The text breaks off at the end of line 2 and the text given under No. 321 follows below.  It may be here remarked that the second sketch on W. P. 311 has in the original no explanatory text.] in the way here figured.

Proportions of the leg (328-331).

328.

The greatest thickness of the calf of the leg is at a third of its height a b, and is a twentieth part thicker than the greatest thickness of the foot.

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