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On indistinctness at great distances.

OF PAINTING.

Our true perception of an object diminishes in proportion as its size is diminished by distance.

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

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Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

IV: Perspective of Disappearance.

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Definition.

222,

223

An illustration by experiment.

224

A guiding rule.

225

An experiment.

226

On indistinctness at short distances.

227,

228,

229,

230,

231

On indistinctness at great distances.

232,

233,

234

disappearance.

235,

236,

237,

238,

239

objects.

240,

241,

242,

243,

244,

245,

246,

247,

248,

249

Propositions on perspective of disappearance from MS. C..

250,

251,

252,

253

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