116

Different principles and plans of treatment.

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Let a be the light, b the eye, c the object seen by the eye and in the light. These show, first, the eye between the light and the body; the 2nd, the light between the eye and the body; the 3rd the body between the eye and the light, a is the eye, b the illuminated object, c the light.

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

II * IV
Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
III: Six books on Light and Shade.
Prolegomena.
110
Scheme of the books on Light and shade.
111
Different principles and plans of treatment.
112,
113,
114,
115,
116
Different sorts of light.
117,
118
Definition of the nature of shadows.
119,
120,
121,
122
Of the various kinds of shadows..
123,
124,
125
Of the various kinds of light.
126,
127
General remarks.
128,
129
On the nature of light.
130,
131
The difference between light and lustre.
132,
133,
134,
135
The relations of luminous to illuminated bodies.
136
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