The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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But leaves of a green verging on yellow when they reflect the  
atmosphere do not produce a reflection verging on blue, inasmuch as  
every thing which appears in a mirror takes some colour from that  
mirror, hence the blue of the atmosphere being reflected in the  
yellow of the leaf appears green, because blue and yellow mixed  
together make a very fine green colour, therefore the lustre of  
light leaves verging on yellow will be greenish yellow.  
A classification of trees according to their colours.  
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35.  
The trees in a landscape are of various kinds of green, inasmuch as  
some verge towards blackness, as firs, pines, cypresses, laurels,  
box and the like. Some tend to yellow such as walnuts, and pears,  
vines and verdure. Some are both yellowish and dark as chesnuts,  
holm-oak. Some turn red in autumn as the service-tree, pomegranate,  
vine, and cherry; and some are whitish as the willow, olive, reeds  
and the like. Trees are of various forms ...  
The proportions of light and shade in trees (436-440).  
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36.  
OF A GENERALLY DISTRIBUTED LIGHT AS LIGHTING UP TREES.  
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