The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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THE MIRROR.  
If the illuminated object is of the same size as the luminous body  
and as that in which the light is reflected, the amount of the  
reflected light will bear the same proportion to the intermediate  
light as this second light will bear to the first, if both bodies  
are smooth and white.  
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09.  
Describe how it is that no object has its limitation in the mirror  
but in the eye which sees it in the mirror. For if you look at your  
face in the mirror, the part resembles the whole in as much as the  
part is everywhere in the mirror, and the whole is in every part of  
the same mirror; and the same is true of the whole image of any  
object placed opposite to this mirror, &c.  
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10.  
No man can see the image of another man in a mirror in its proper  
place with regard to the objects; because every object falls on [the  
surface of] the mirror at equal angles. And if the one man, who sees  
the other in the mirror, is not in a direct line with the image he  
will not see it in the place where it really falls; and if he gets  
into the line, he covers the other man and puts himself in the place  
occupied by his image. Let n o be the mirror, b the eye of your  
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