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Designs for fountains
On two fragments are designs for a ‘Heron’s fountain’ – a hydraulic curiosity in which a reservoir of water empties by gravity into a lower chamber, which in turn sends a small fountain of water back into the upper reservoir. The drawings offer a rare glimpse of Leonardo thinking as a sculptor in a context other than an equestrian monument.