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VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 374.
VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 374.
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VII. On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure: 374.

374.

OF DRAWING.

When a man who is running wants to neutralise the impetus that carries him on he prepares a contrary impetus which is generated by his hanging backwards. This can be proved, since, if the impetus carries a moving body with a momentum equal to 4 and the moving body wants to turn and fall back with a momentum of 4, then one momentum neutralises the other contrary one, and the impetus is neutralised.

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