953

On the encroachments of the sea on the land and vice versa.

That the shores of the sea constantly acquire more soil towards the middle of the sea; that the rocks and promontories of the sea are constantly being ruined and worn away; that the Mediterranean seas will in time discover their bottom to the air, and all that will be left will be the channel of the greatest river that enters it; and this will run to the ocean and pour its waters into that with those of all the rivers that are its tributaries.

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

XVI: Physical Geography.

. . .

Of the surface of the water in relation to the globe.

933,

934,

935,

Of the proportion of the mass of water to that of the earth.

937,

The theory of Plato.

That the flow of rivers proves the slope of the land.

Theory of the elevation of water within the mountains.

The relative height of the surface of the sea to that of the land.

942,

943,

944,

Refutation of Pliny’s theory as to the saltness of the sea.

946,

The characteristics of sea water.

948,

On the formation of Gulfs.

950,

On the encroachments of the sea on the land and vice versa.

952,

953,

The ebb and flow of the tide.

955,

956,

957,

958,

959,

Theory of the circulation of the waters.

961,

Observations in support of the hypothesis.

963,

964,

965,

966,

967,

968,

On the way in which the sources of rivers are fed.

The tide in estuaries.

confluence.

972,

. . .