QuoteQuest“All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.”
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All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other. Citation: "Of Water, which flows turbid and mixed with Soil and Dust; and of Mist, which is mixed with the Air; and of Fire which is mixed with its own, and each with each." Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci (CC BY-SA)Read evidence
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- Vinci, Leonardo da. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Leonardo da Vinci. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
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- Vinci (n.d.)
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