Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 · London : Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ... · leaf 215
reon you look; forin that cafe, thofe branches of the tree whichface the fun, will be diminilhed to that degree,as almoft to become invitible: and the famething will be found in holding out a pike, orother long pole, ftrait between the eye and thefun. Parallel bodies placed upright, and feen in a•… … BY LEONARDO DA VINCI. 157 Bodies feen at ? diflance appear ill proporti-oned : this happens, becaufe the brighter partsfend their images to the eye wronger and niorefenlible, than thofe emitted from the obfcurerparts ; and I once obferx ed, in looking at awoman who was dreffcd in mourning, that…
