The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


google search for The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete

Return to Master Book Index.

Page
90 91 92 93 94

Quick Jump
1 306 613 919 1225

PERSPECTIVE.  
No second object can be so much lower than the first as that the eye  
will not see it higher than the first, if the eye is above the  
second.  
PERSPECTIVE.  
And this second object will never be so much higher than the first  
as that the eye, being below them, will not see the second as lower  
than the first.  
PERSPECTIVE.  
If the eye sees a second square through the centre of a smaller one,  
that is nearer, the second, larger square will appear to be  
surrounded by the smaller one.  
PERSPECTIVE--PROPOSITION.  
Objects that are farther off can never be so large but that those in  
front, though smaller, will conceal or surround them.  
DEFINITION.  
9
2


Page
90 91 92 93 94

Quick Jump
1 306 613 919 1225