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OCR: The sixth paragraph on the page concerns the moon. B Here Leonardo develops details of the argument sketched on the preceding pages that the mild radiance of the moon is due to waves moving on the surface of its watery sphere: "And here the moon, being a spherical and opaque body, remains of uniform brightness in its parts which are apt to receive uniform light. And this, for what is said above, could not be, if water were not there; the water being spherical, it cannot receive the solar ray and reflect it to our eyes except through the ray of incidence, which is smaller in relation to the