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OCR: At the top of this page, Leonardo's discussion of moisture evaporating is directly related to the experiment he describes on the facing page. Here he makes a connection with his "body of the earth" problem: he had been further considering the theory that the circulation of water inside the body of the earth is due to its being vaporized in caverns. His considerations of earthquakes make sense in that context: "The rumbling produced by the earthquake in the body of the earth proceeds from the destruction of places torn open by force by the winds which continually strike upon the