The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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The greater the difference between a light and the body lighted by  
it, the light being the larger, the more vague will be the outlines  
of the shadow of that object.  
The derived shadow will be most confused towards the edges of its  
interception by a plane, where it is remotest from the body casting  
it.  
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95.  
What is the cause which makes the outlines of the shadow vague and  
confused?  
Whether it is possible to give clear and definite outlines to the  
edges of shadows.  
On the relative size of shadows (196. 197).  
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96.  
THE BODY WHICH IS NEAREST TO THE LIGHT CASTS THE LARGEST  
SHADOW, AND  
WHY?  
If an object placed in front of a single light is very close to it  
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