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General remarks.

MEMORANDUM OF THINGS I REQUIRE TO HAVE GRANTED [AS AXIOMS] IN MY EXPLANATION OF PERSPECTIVE.

I ask to have this much granted me—to assert that every ray passing through air of equal density throughout, travels in a straight line from its cause to the object or place it falls upon.

FIRST BOOK ON LIGHT AND SHADE.

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

128 * 130
II * IV
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Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
III: Six books on Light and Shade.
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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
Experiments on the relation of light and shadow within a room.
137,
138,
139,
140
Light and shadow with regard to the position of the eye.
141,
142,
143,
144,
145
The law of the incidence of light.
146,
147
Gradations of strength in the shadows.
148,
149
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