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It is Leonardo's sheer ability to see --to notice, in a way that no one had before, precisely what it looks like when two streams of water merge--that accounts for the thrilling bits of the Codex
The earls of Leicester, who owned the codex since 1717, seem rarely to have looked at it.
Leonardo's obsession with swirling water--which found scientific expression in the Codex
But elsewhere in the codex, he maintains that only moving water produces pressure at the bottom, reasoning that the still water of a pond, after all, does not press down the grasses that grow on the bottom.
Looking at the English translation of the codex on a CD-ROM at the exhibit, I saw that what began as an attempt by Leonardo to set down the first principles of the behavior of water ended up as a farrago of observations and musings--fanciful, insightful, analytically maddening.