Water rings from thrown stones; the 'More' emblem
Concentric circles in still and moving water, with a proportion note and an allegorical device
The main pen text studies the concentric rings raised when stones are thrown into water: a single stone in still water of even depth makes equal circles, and two stones a braccio apart raise circles that grow into one another without spoiling each other. If the bottom is uneven the rings stay equal only at the surface, while long and round objects raise oval undulations. Two small marginal figures of stones dropped in water illustrate this, and interspersed jottings note that a child at three is half its final height and that drowned men float face-up and women face-down. Faint red-chalk allegorical figures carry the emblematic word 'More' (mulberries), sweet and sour.
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Concentric rings from a stone in still water
A stone thrown into still water of even depth makes an equal circulation of motion. Two stones thrown a braccio apart raise circles that grow equally, one into the body of the other, without spoiling one another; but if the bottom is uneven the circulation is equal only at the surface.
Long and round objects raise oval ripples
A thing of long shape thrown upon the water makes an oval undulation, and a round thing thrown upon flowing water makes an oval undulation of two motions.
A child at three is half its final height
Among the water notes is a rule of human proportion: every man in his third year is half of his ultimate height.
Allegorical emblem: 'More', sweet and sour
Faint red-chalk allegorical figures carry the emblematic word 'More' (mulberries) together with the phrase 'sweet and sour', an emblematic conceit begun but left unfinished.