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OCR: of the earth and of its creatures; and they originate in the depths of the sea, and there after many revolutions they have to return through the rivers formed by the high burstings of these veins." A Jean-Paul Richter, in 1883, and other scholars proposed that Leonardo had traveled to the East and elsewhere. This assumption was based on texts like this one and Leonardo's famous "letters from the East." We know now that Leonardo's worldly attitude was developed through armchair traveling, inspired in part by the availability of books through the new printing technology.