The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci
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causing them.
PERSPECTIVE. All those horizontal planes of which the extremes are met by perpendicular lines forming right angles, if they are of equal width the more they rise to the level of eye the less this is seen, and the more the eye is above them the more will their real width be seen. PERSPECTIVE. The farther a spherical body is from the eye the more you will see of it. The angle of sight varies with the distance (86-88) 86. A simple and natural method; showing how objects appear to the eye without any other medium. The object that is nearest to the eye always seems larger than another of the same size at greater distance. The eye _m_, seeing the spaces _o v x_, hardly detects the difference between them, and the. reason of this is that it is close to them [Footnote 6: It is quite inconceivable to me why M. RAVAISSON, in a note to his French translation of this simple passage should have remarked: _Il est clair que c'est par erreur que Leonard a ecrit_ per esser visino _au lieu de_ per non esser visino. (See his printed ed. of MS. A. p. |
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