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Axles, supports, and bearings

Leonardo minutely described and analyzed many systems to support moving axles and shafts. The systems were chiefly intended to diminish the effect of friction. Leonard sought to classify the various types of friction (tangent, rotary, etc.), to quantify their impact, and to design complex systems for reducing or eliminating them.

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