The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Principles of reflection (203. 204).  
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03.  
OF THE WAY IN WHICH THE SHADOWS CAST BY OBJECTS OUGHT TO BE  
DEFINED.  
If the object is the mountain here figured, and the light is at the  
point a, I say that from b d and also from c f there will be  
no light but from reflected rays. And this results from the fact  
that rays of light can only act in straight lines; and the same is  
the case with the secondary or reflected rays.  
2
04.  
The edges of the derived shadow are defined by the hues of the  
illuminated objects surrounding the luminous body which produces the  
shadow.  
On reverberation.  
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05.  
OF REVERBERATION.  
Reverberation is caused by bodies of a bright nature with a flat and  
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