Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: length, in technical terms, that the earth is actually a sphere, and concludes: "Many ... are extremely blind who say that it is a miracle for the water in the midst of the sea to be higher than its shore. .. This fallacy arises from the fact that they imagine a straight line extended above the middle of the sea, which without doubt will be higher than the shores, because the earth is a sphere and its surface forms a curve." B Leonardo is concerned about the variable distances of seas and mountains from the