The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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light and shade, existing in the air; and the farther they are from  
the object which produces them the more acute they become and  
although in their distribution they intersect and cross they never  
mingle together, but pass through all the surrounding air,  
independently converging, spreading, and diffused. And they are all  
of equal power [and value]; all equal to each, and each equal to  
all. By these the images of objects are transmitted through all  
space and in every direction, and each pyramid, in itself, includes,  
in each minutest part, the whole form of the body causing it.  
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The body of the atmosphere is full of infinite radiating pyramids  
produced by the objects existing in it. These intersect and cross  
each other with independent convergence without interfering with  
each other and pass through all the surrounding atmosphere; and are  
of equal force and value--all being equal to each, each to all. And  
by means of these, images of the body are transmitted everywhere and  
on all sides, and each receives in itself every minutest portion of  
the object that produces it.  
Proof by experiment (65-66).  
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PERSPECTIVE.  
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