The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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The effect of colours in the camera obscura (273-274).  
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73.  
The edges of a colour(ed object) transmitted through a small hole  
are more conspicuous than the central portions.  
The edges of the images, of whatever colour, which are transmitted  
through a small aperture into a dark chamber will always be stronger  
than the middle portions.  
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74.  
OF THE INTERSECTIONS OF THE IMAGES IN THE PUPIL OF THE EYE.  
The intersections of the images as they enter the pupil do not  
mingle in confusion in the space where that intersection unites  
them; as is evident, since, if the rays of the sun pass through two  
panes of glass in close contact, of which one is blue and the other  
yellow, the rays, in penetrating them, do not become blue or yellow  
but a beautiful green. And the same thing would happen in the eye,  
if the images which were yellow or green should mingle where they  
[meet and] intersect as they enter the pupil. As this does not  
happen such a mingling does not exist.  
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