A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
Of the Quickness or Slowness of Motion
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Chap. LXXII.Of the Quickness or Slowness of Motion.

The motion performed by a man, or any other animal whatever, in walking, will have more or less velocity as the centre of their weight is more or less removed from the centre of that foot upon which they are supported.