A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 70
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Chap. LXX.—Of the Motions of Animals.
All bipeds in their motions lower the part immediately over the foot that is raised, more than over that resting on the ground, and the highest parts do just the contrary. This is observable in the hips and shoulders of a man when he walks; and also in birds in the head and rump.