a b the tendon and ankle in raising the heel approach each other by a finger’s breadth; in lowering it they separate by a finger’s breadth.
[Footnote: See Pl. XXII, No. 2. Compare this facsimile and text with Pl. III, No. 2, and p. 152 of MANZI’S edition. Also with No. 274 of LUDWIG’S edition of the Vatican Copy.]
Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.