Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: geometric bodies: cube for earth, icosahedron for water, octahedron for air, and pyramid for fire. But did Leonardo accept this Platonic view literally? To approach this answer, one must refer to his adherence to the traditional theories of the macrocosm, defined as the four concentric spheres of the four cosmic elements: fire, the outermost; then air, water, and earth as the hidden core. Taking the simple Platonic scheme as his starting point, Leonardo explains how earth is removed from the core by earthquakes and similar
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