Water Vessel and the Deepening of a Falling Stream
Where the pool beneath a waterfall is deepest and shallowest
A red-chalk page of water studies. Leonardo first asks, of a water vessel, whether the water issuing from below draws from the surface or not. A numbered note (27) on water falling into water then ranks where the receiving pool grows deepest, where the eddies run their course, and where it is shallowest as the water rebounds and the eddy meets the current. A small sketch of the vessel and a flow line accompany the text.
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Water issuing from a vessel
Leonardo poses a question about a water container: whether the water that flows out from below comes from the surface of the water or not.
Where a stream falling into water is deepest
Numbered note 27 on water falling into water: the first, greatest depth forms where the sum of the water's impact is spent, the next along the course of the eddies; the least depth is where the water rebounds, then where the eddying water meets the current.