406

The direction of growth.

The upper shoots of the lateral branches of plants lie closer to the parent branch than the lower ones.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

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VII * X

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

. . .

Classification of trees.

393

The relative thickness of the branches to the trunk.

394,

395

The law of proportion in the growth of the branches.

396,

397,

398,

399,

400,

401,

402

The direction of growth.

403,

404,

405,

406,

407

The forms of trees.

408,

409,

410,

411

The insertion of the leaves.

412,

413,

414,

415,

416,

417,

418,

419

Light on branches and leaves.

420,

421,

422

The proportions of light and shade in a leaf.

423,

424,

425,

426

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