The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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being illuminated by the sun. And the same thing occurs with dust;  
and both one and the other look the lighter in proportion as they  
are denser, and they are densest towards the middle.  
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69.  
OF SMOKE AND DUST.  
If the sun is in the East the smoke of cities will not be visible in  
the West, because on that side it is not seen penetrated by the  
solar rays, nor on a dark background; since the roofs of the houses  
turn the same side to the eye as they turn towards the sun, and on  
this light background the smoke is not very visible.  
But dust, under the same aspect, will look darker than smoke being  
of denser material than smoke which is moist.  
The effect of wind on trees (470-473).  
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70.  
OF REPRESENTING WIND.  
In representing wind, besides the bending of the boughs and the  
reversing of their leaves towards the quarter whence the wind comes,  
you should also represent them amid clouds of fine dust mingled with  
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