{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0874.htm","path":"aor/dv/0874.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0874.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nOn the luminosity of the Earth in the universal space (874-878).In my book I propose to show, how the ocean and the other seas must, by means of the sun, make our world shine with the appearance of a moon, and to the remoter worlds it looks like a star; and this I shall prove.\nShow, first that every light at a distance from the eye throws out rays which appear to increase the size of the luminous body; and from this it follows that 2 ... 452 .\n[11]The moon is cold and moist. Water is cold and moist. Thus our seas must appear to the moon as the moon does to us.\n144:452 10: Here the text breaks off; lines 11 and fol. are written in the margin.","title":"Vol. II: XV. Astronomy: 874.","type":"page"}