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Theoretical writings on Architecture.

A continuous body which has been forcibly bent into an arch, thrusts in the direction of the straight line, which it tends to recover.

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XIII: Theoretical writings on Architecture.
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