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A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London


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LDE T0278   CID174  Whence an Arm moves with the greatest violence

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Of two Arms, that will be moved with the greatest force, which being heaved out of its Natural Posture, receives the most powerful Assistance from the other Members to recover it self, and to drive it towards the Place whither it would go; thus the Figure A, heaves back its Arm with the Club E, to recollect it self with the greater Force, by the Concurrence of the rest of the Body, and to drive it with the greater Violence upon B.