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OCR: central to the analogy of macrocosm and microcosm, are problematic for Leonardo. He illustrates Aristotle's concept of continuous quantity by the proposition that a wine-filled vessel B to which water is added will always contain some wine because "as it can be divided to infinity, this continuous quantity of wine will be divided into an infinite number of hours; and because the infinite has no end in time, there will be no end to the number of parts into which the wine will be divided." C This example comes from Heron of Alexandria,