Hereford is a cathedral city located in Herefordshire, England, just 16 miles from the Welsh border. The town received its charter from King Richard I in 1189.

Trinity College is a constituent college at University of Cambridge. It was founded by King Henry VIII in 1546.

Dating from 1768, Homerton College is a constituent college at University of Cambridge. It 1894, it relocated from Homerton High Street in London to Cambridge.

Haslingden is a town in Rossendale, Lancashire, England, just north of Manchester. It was long known for its stone quarries, with its signature flagstone being more widely distributed in the nineteenth century due to the railways.

Osborne Reynolds grew up on the eastern side of England, in the town of Debach, situated between the more notable cities of Ipswich and Norwich (Jackson, Derek, Launder). Both Leonardo da Vinci and Obsorne Reynolds grew up with fathers that were notable intellectual figures who looked to instill similar principles in their sons. da Vinci’s father was a prominent notary, who had Leonardo apprentice under Andrea del Verrochio, a leading Renaissance artist (Da Vinci).

The original da Vinci documents that Del moto e misura dell’acqua was based on are not known, but in all likelihood, they followed a similar path of ownership that the Codex Atlanticus followed (da Vinci and Richter). It was said that even while Leonardo was alive, his “...talent was so highly esteemed that any product of his extraordinary intellect and powers of invention… was treasured…” (Farago “Overview” 73).