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OCR: accounting for the way that water rises to the tops of mountains. He disagrees with those who contend that the oceans are higher than the mountain peaks: "That part of water is higher which is more remote from the center of the sphere of fire and of the air and of the water, but not of the earth, because this has not a mathematical spherical shape." B The direct use of mathematical concepts, like the one about the geometry of the earth just described, helps us understand the particular language Leonardo employs both