English: Illustrates Leonardo da Vinci's narration of the nature of the true term or spirited arm of a lever. With point m held as center, line mn, the true term is found by drawing a line from m to cut at a right angle the line (fh) of the power that moves the arm mh and calling the point of intersection n.
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