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OCR: This page, filled with Leonardo's thoughts, notes, meditations, and poetic ruminations, ranges over a wide area of subject matter connected with his considerations of the body of the earth and his field studies of water. He questions "whether the movement of the wind is curved, according to the curvature of the watery sphere, or rectilinear." A Leonardo offers a vision of the distant future of the Mediterranean basin, when it will be reduced to a single river: "How the Mediterranean seas will lay bare their depths to the air and will only keep the channel of the greatest river that flows