Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: Leonardo's source for a number of experiments and machines Leonardo's description of the reflex action of a wave striking the shore and bounding back to sea, another example of continuous quantity, anticipates the first documented scientific explanation by Christian Huygens in 1673. The circular motion Leonardo saw in waves and clouds is indebted to the ancient theory of antiperistasis. Greek philosophers since Plato (Timaeus) gave preeminence to circular motion, which ultimately represented
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