Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 94
lly, only the thingsthat are perpendicular to his retina, and at a certaindistance; for the geometrical image of an object isthat seen in its real dimensions by an eye as large asit; everything greater than the eye is seen in perspec-tive, that is, in its apparent dimensions. Strange and beneficent… … Yet as if all nature were subject to him he runs hisintelligent eye over it, and each of his movementschanging his point of sight, the lines come of them-selves to converge there and form for him a specta-cle always changing, always new. Perspective is, soto say, the ideal of visible things, and it…
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