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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
Leonardo's obsession with swirling water--which found scientific expression in the Codex
What is the evidence for such deep originality in the Codex Leicester ? The manuscript itself, whose pages are dimly illumined in a series of glass cases at the museum, is not, at first blush, a fetching object.
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.
Little of Leonardo's weirdness is conveyed by the Codex Leicester exhibit--though Isabella Rosellini's blue-velveteen voice narrating the exhibit's eight-minute biographical video helps somewhat.