Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, Rigaud, J. F. (John Francis), 1742-1810, Brown, John William · London : J.B. Nichols and Son ... · leaf 278
sort, 170 PERSPECTIVE OF COLOURS. while D goes through four degrees of the one, andfour of the other. This demonstrates, that thegradation of colours is in proportion to their dis-tance from the eye*. But this happens only tothose colours which are on a level with the eye;as for those which happen… … Chap. CCXCIV.—0/ the Perspective of Coloursin dark Places. In any place where the light diminishes in agradual proportion, till it terminates in total dark-ness, the colours also will lose themselves and bedissolved in proportion as thej recede from the eye. * See chap, cclzxxvii. PERSPECTIVE OF…
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