Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: Throughout this page, Leonardo uses logic, observation, and experimentation to understand the phenomenon of fossils as part of the natural world and not as remnants of a biblical event: "And we find oysters together in very large families, among which some may be seen with their shells still joined together, which serves to indicate that they were left there by the sea and that they were still living when the Strait of Gibraltar were cut through." A This key passage implies an alternative, cyclical theory for the composition of the body of the earth in regard to the presence of seashells on
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