188

On the shape of the cast shadows.

The form of the shadow cast by any body of uniform density can never be the same as that of the body producing it. [Footnote: Comp. the drawing on PI. XXVIII, No. 5.]

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

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II * IV

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

III: Six books on Light and Shade.

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168,

169,

170,

171,

172,

173,

174

On the relative intensity of derived shadows.

175,

176,

177,

178,

179

Shadow as produced by two lights of different size.

180,

181

The effect of light at different distances.

182

Further complications in the derived shadows.

183,

184,

185,

186,

187

On the shape of the cast shadows.

188,

189,

190,

191

On the outlines of cast shadows.

192,

193,

194,

195

On the relative size of shadows.

196,

197

Effects on cast shadows by the tone of the back ground.

198

A disputed proposition.

199

On the relative depth of cast shadows.

200,

201,

202

Principles of reflection.

203,

204

On reverberation.

205

Reflection on water.

206,

207

Experiments with the mirror.

208

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