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OCR: seen with water passed through felt, for the greater weight of water that is outside the vessel draws back the lesser weight of water which this folded felt holds back within the vessel." B Leonardo's line of thinking regarding dif- ferent materials through which water passes involves his inherited concept of continuous and discontinuous quantities. This terminology originated with Aristotle, who described geometry as dealing with all physical matter "continuous" in nature. He applied the term