400

The law of proportion in the growth of the branches.

OF THE RAMIFICATION.

The beginning of the ramification [the shoot] always has the central line [axis] of its thickness directed to the central line [axis] of the plant itself.

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

399 * 401

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

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