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OCR: On this page, titled "Of the water of the moon," A Leonardo sets out to prove "how in some aspect of the sky the shaded side of the moon has some luminosity, and how in some other part of the sky it is deprived of such luminosity." B He notes the need to take into account the reflection of the light from the waters of the earth to explain the radiance of the moon. Later in the 16th century, Galileo, who was familiar with Leonardo's manuscripts, proposed that light from neighboring bodies affects the