The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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the rising of the deluge to the peaks of the mountains in the midst  
of the waters aforesaid.  
The wave of the sea at Piombino is all foaming water. [Footnote 55.  
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6: These two lines are written below the bottom sketch on Pl. XXXV,  
. The MS. Leic. being written about the year 1510 or later, it does  
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not seem to me to follow that the sketches must have been made at  
Piombino, where Leonardo was in the year 1502 and possibly returned  
there subsequently (see Vol. II. Topographical notes).]  
Of the water which leaps up from the spot where great masses fall on  
its surface. Of the winds of Piombino at Piombino. Eddies of wind  
and rain with boughs and shrubs mixed in the air. Emptying the boats  
of the rain water.  
[Footnote: The sketches on Pl. XXXV 3 stand by the side of lines 14  
to 54.]  
Of depicting natural phenomena (610. 611).  
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10.  
The tremendous fury of the wind driven by the falling in of the  
hills on the caves within--by the falling of the hills which served  
as roofs to these caverns.  
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