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Reflection on water.

PERSPECTIVE.

The shadow or object mirrored in water in motion, that is to say in small wavelets, will always be larger than the external object producing it.

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

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III: Six books on Light and Shade.
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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,
209,
210
Appendix:--On shadows in movement.
211,
212
The effect of rays passing through holes.
213,
214
On gradation of shadows.
215
On relative proportion of light and shadows.
216,
217,
218,
219,
220,
221
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