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The earth’s place in the universe.

The equator, the line of the horizon, the ecliptic, the meridian:

These lines are those which in all their parts are equidistant from the centre of the globe.

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

856 * 858
XIII * XVI
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Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XIV: Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology.
. . .
On the origin of the soul.
837
On the relations of the soul to the organs of sense.
838
On involuntary muscular action.
839
Miscellaneous physiological observations.
840,
841,
842
The laws of nutrition and the support of life.
843,
844,
845,
846,
847
On the circulation of the blood.
848,
849,
850
Some notes on medicine.
851,
852,
853,
854,
855,
856
The earth’s place in the universe.
857,
858
The fundamental laws of the solar system.
859,
860,
861,
862,
863,
864
How to prove that the earth is a planet.
865,
866,
867
The principles of astronomical perspective.
868,
869,
870,
871,
872,
873
On the luminosity of the Earth in the universal space.
874,
875,
876,
877
. . .