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Source: Manuscript held by G. W. Leibniz Bibliothek, Hanover Shelfmark LH 37, 4 Bl. 32 Date: 1678 (?) Translated from the Latin View this translation in PDF format (5k) Back to home page Search texts by keyword(s): (For search strings, just type the words; don't use quotation marks) |
LEIBNIZ: THE SOURCE OF SPRINGS[LH 37, 4 Bl. 32] Perhaps a great part of sea water trickles down into the interior of the earth, and being raised again by some subterranean heat, produces springs by vapour. Perhaps the earth is full of water within, and the vapours rise not by subterranean heat, but by the attraction of the surrounding air, for when the air is thin, as in summer, it draws denser air to itself. © Lloyd Strickland 2023 |