The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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causing them.  
PERSPECTIVE.  
All those horizontal planes of which the extremes are met by  
perpendicular lines forming right angles, if they are of equal width  
the more they rise to the level of eye the less this is seen, and  
the more the eye is above them the more will their real width be  
seen.  
PERSPECTIVE.  
The farther a spherical body is from the eye the more you will see  
of it.  
The angle of sight varies with the distance (86-88)  
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6.  
A simple and natural method; showing how objects appear to the eye  
without any other medium.  
The object that is nearest to the eye always seems larger than  
another of the same size at greater distance. The eye m, seeing  
the spaces o v x, hardly detects the difference between them, and  
the. reason of this is that it is close to them [Footnote 6: It is  
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