The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Although the points of luminous pyramids may extend into shaded  
places and those of pyramids of shadow into illuminated places, and  
though among the luminous pyramids one may start from a broader base  
than another; nevertheless, if by reason of their various length  
these luminous pyramids acquire angles of equal size their light  
will be equal; and the case will be the same with the pyramids of  
shadow; as may be seen in the intersected pyramids a b c and d e  
f, which though their bases differ in size are equal as to breadth  
and light.  
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Footnote: 51--55: This supplementary paragraph is indicated as being  
a continuation of line 45, by two small crosses.]  
The difference between light and lustre (132--135).  
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32.  
Of the difference between light and lustre; and that lustre is not  
included among colours, but is saturation of whiteness, and derived  
from the surface of wet bodies; light partakes of the colour of the  
object which reflects it (to the eye) as gold or silver or the like.  
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