Proportion and harmony of line and color in painting, sculpture, and architecture; an essay in comparative aesthetics (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 63
So the eye also is a very small,dark chamber, open to lightonly in front, where the lightmust enter from the object tobe imaged, and lined with a darkpigment to quench the light assoon as it has done the work ofimpressing its own point of theretina, and thus prevent reflec-tion and striking some… … FIQ. 5.—THE CAVITY OF THEEYE. a, outer layer ; e, crystalline lens ;g, retina ; /«, optic nerve. See pages 21, 22. PROPORTION AND PERSPECTIVE. 23 of the eye and impress upon the retina an in\erted butexact image of the thing seen is illustrated in Fig. 4,page 22. But notice now that the production…
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