You may find the information in an edition of 'Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
(London/New York - various years) or in Cecil Schneer's paper 'Leonardo da
Vinci: Geology' in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography volume 8, pp. 241-245
(1973).
Patrick
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Quoting "Freedman, Jan (COMMUNITY SERVICES)" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi All,
>
> Sorry me again!!! Thanks to those who got back to me about the footprint
> casts - really helpful.
>
> A strange one for this Wednesday afternoon - Leonardo Da Vinci studied
> palaeontlogy. He is remebered famously for realising that the fossils at the
> top of the Alps mean that the peaks must have been under water at some point
> in the past.
>
> Does any one know where in the Alps he visited, any sites?
>
> (I have read Stephen Jay Gould's Leonardos clams and the diet of worms, 1998,
> but no locations are mentioned).
>
> Thanks and hope everyone is well!
>
> Jan
>
>
> Jan Freedman
> Assistant Keeper of Natural History
> Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
> Drake Circus
> Plymouth
> PL4 8AJ
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