A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 68

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A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
Of the Centre of Gravity in Men and Animals
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4003071A Treatise on Painting — Of the Centre of Gravity in Men and AnimalsJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci
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Chap. LXVIII.—Of the Centre of Gravity in Men and Animals.

The legs, or centre of support, in men and animals, will approach nearer to the centre of gravity, in proportion to the slowness of their motion; and, on the contrary, when the motion is quicker, they will be farther removed from that perpendicular line.

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