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I. Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting: 8.
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I. Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting: 8.

8.

The order of your book must proceed on this plan: first simple beams, then (those) supported from below, then suspended in part, then wholly [suspended]. Then beams as supporting other weights 5 .

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  1. 13:5

    : 4. Leonardo's notes on Mechanics are extraordinarily numerous; but, for the reasons assigned in my introduction, they have not been included in the present work.

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