Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: Leonardo continues his discussion about the circulation of water in the body of the earth. His classical sources on rivers derive from Pliny the Elder and Hercules ("Hercules came to open the sea in the west, and then the waters of the sea commenced to flow into the western ocean."), A but he is indebted to Ristoro d'Arezzo for his ideas on the science of water. On this densely written page, Leonardo takes issue with the traditional view, transmitted by Ristoro, that the seas are higher than the highest mountains. He goes on to explain at
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