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964

Observations in support of the hypothesis.

The same cause which stirs the humours in every species of animal body and by which every injury is repaired, also moves the waters from the utmost depth of the sea to the greatest heights.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

963 * 965
XIV * XVII
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XVI: Physical Geography.
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944,
945
Refutation of Pliny’s theory as to the saltness of the sea.
946,
947
The characteristics of sea water.
948,
949
On the formation of Gulfs.
950,
951
On the encroachments of the sea on the land and vice versa.
952,
953,
954
The ebb and flow of the tide.
955,
956,
957,
958,
959,
960
Theory of the circulation of the waters.
961,
962
Observations in support of the hypothesis.
963,
964,
965,
966,
967,
968,
969
On the way in which the sources of rivers are fed.
970
The tide in estuaries.
971
confluence.
972,
973,
974
Whirlpools.
975
On the alterations in the channels of rivers.
976
The origin of the sand in rivers.
977,
978
The formation of mountains.
979,
980,
981,
982,
983
The authorities for the study of the structure of the earth.
984
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