Da Vinci Notes #60 - Atmosphere Reflecting What's Inside It

 

That the atmosphere attracts to itself, like a loadstone, all the

images of the objects that exist in it, and not their forms merely

but their nature may be clearly seen by the sun, which is a hot and

luminous body. All the atmosphere, which is the all-pervading

matter, absorbs light and heat, and reflects in itself the image of

the source of that heat and splendour and, in each minutest portion,

does the same. The Northpole does the same as the loadstone shows;

and the moon and the other planets, without suffering any

diminution, do the same. Among terrestrial things musk does the same