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LEONARDO DA VINCI - Equivalence between a screw and an inclined plane


Madrid Ms. I (BNM), fol. 86v (detail)

"It amounts to the same thing to move a weight along the screw, from m to n, as to move it from m to p, along the line p m [inclined plane]."

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