VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 316.
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VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 316.

316.

From a to b--that is to say from the roots of the hair in front to the top of the head--ought to be equal to c d;--that is from the bottom of the nose to the meeting of the lips in the middle of the mouth. From the inner corner of the eye m to the top of the head a is as far as from m down to the chin s. s c f b are all at equal distances from each other.

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Footnotes

  1. 172:137

    : The drawing in silver-point on bluish tinted paper--Pl. X--which belongs to this chapter has been partly drawn over in ink by Leonardo himself.

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