The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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5.  
Among objects of equal size that which is most remote from the eye  
will look the smallest. [Footnote: This axiom, sufficiently clear in  
itself, is in the original illustrated by a very large diagram,  
constructed like that here reproduced under No. 108.  
The same idea is repeated in C. A. I a; I a, stated as follows:  
Infra le cose d'equal grandeza quella si dimostra di minor figura  
che sara piĆ¹ distante dall' ochio.--]  
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Why an object is less distinct when brought near to the eye, and why  
with spectacles, or without the naked eye sees badly either close or  
far off [as the case may be].  
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7.  
PERSPECTIVE.  
Among objects of equal size, that which is most remote from the eye  
will look the smallest.  
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