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OCR: From antiquity through the Middle Ages, philosophers debated the mysteries of the natural world. Ideas about geology were interwoven with the theory of creation-in particular, as it was told in the Book of Genesis. One controversy at the heart of these debates was the presence of marine fossils high in the mountains, miles from existing seas and lakes. In the Codex Leicester, Leonardo examines this mystery of "the oysters and shells and sea snails and scallops and bones of great fishes which are still found in many places on the high slopes of the said mountains. . .. " (1v) The Deluge Marine Fossils