{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0952.htm","path":"aor/dv/0952.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0952.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nOn the encroachments of the sea on the land and vice versa (952-954).A wave of the sea always breaks in front of its base, and that portion of the crest will then be lowest which before was highest.\n191:502 : The page of FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO'S Trattato, on which Leonardo has written this remark, contains some notes on the construction of dams, harbours &c","title":"Vol. II: XVI. Physical Geography: 952.","type":"page"}