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The practice of perspective.
In the practice of perspective the same rules apply to light and to
the eye.
Taken from
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.
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Experimental proof of the existence of the pyramid of sight.
The relations of the distance points to the vanishing point.
How to measure the pyramid of vision.
The Production of pyramid of Vision.
Proof by experiment.
General conclusions.
That the contrary is impossible.
A parallel case.
The function of the eye as explained by the camera obscura.
The practice of perspective.
Refraction of the rays falling upon the eye.
The inversion of the images.
The intersection of the rays.
Demomstration of perspective by means of a vertical glass plane.
The angle of sight varies with the distance.
Opposite pyramids in juxtaposition.
On simple and complex perspective.
The proper distance of objects from the eye.
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