The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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accuracy, it follows that an object brought close to the eye is not  
at a due distance, but is too near for the central line to be able  
to discern the outlines of the object. So the edges fall within the  
lines of weaker discerning power, and these are to the function of  
the eye like dogs in the chase which can put up the game but cannot  
take it. Thus these cannot take in the objects, but induce the  
central line of sight to turn upon them, when they have put them up.  
Hence the objects which are seen with these lines of sight have  
confused outlines.  
The relative size of objects with regard to their distance from the  
eye (93-98).  
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3.  
PERSPECTIVE.  
Small objects close at hand and large ones at a distance, being seen  
within equal angles, will appear of the same size.  
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4.  
PERSPECTIVE.  
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the  
eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.  
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