890

Considerations as to the size of the sun.

Because the eye is small it can only see the image of the sun as of a small size. If the eye were as large as the sun it would see the image of the sun in water of the same size as the real body of the sun, so long as the water is smooth.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XIV: Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology.
. . .
870,
871,
872,
873
On the luminosity of the Earth in the universal space.
874,
875,
876,
877,
878
The question of the true and of the apparent size of the sun.
879,
880,
881,
882,
883,
884
Of the nature of Sunlight.
885
Considerations as to the size of the sun.
886,
887,
888,
889,
890,
891
On the luminousity of the moon.
892,
893,
894,
895,
896,
897,
898,
899,
900,
901
Explanation of the lumen cinereum in the moon.
902
On the spots in the moon.
903,
904,
905,
906,
907
On the moon’s halo.
908
On instruments for observing the moon.
909,
910
. . .