A falling heavy body seeks the centre of the world
Two lines on gravity: the heavier part falls nearest the centre
The page carries only two short lines of mirror script at the top, with no diagram. Leonardo states that every free heavy body, in falling, aligns itself toward the centre, and that its heavier part comes to lie nearest the centre of the world. The note distils his principle that weight drives a body toward the earth's centre.
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Free heavy bodies fall toward the centre of the world
The aphorism holds that any unrestrained heavy body, in falling, directs itself toward the centre, and that the part of it which weighs more ends up nearest the centre of the world. It is a compact statement of Leonardo's account of gravity and orientation in free fall.