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OCR: Leonardo describes the action of water at the nearly microscopic level of a falling drop of water. The drop provides an apt analogy to the "watery sphere" of the earth: "That water may have tenacity and cohesion together is quite clearly shown in small quantities of water, where the drop, in the process of separating itself from the rest, before it falls becomes as elongated as possible, until the weight of the drop renders the tenacity by which it is suspended so thin that this tenacity, overcome by the excessive weight, suddenly