303

On the colour of the atmosphere.

A dark object will appear bluest in proportion as it has a greater mass of luminous atmosphere between it and the eye. As may be seen in the colour of the sky.

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

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V * VII

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VI: ’Prospettiva de’ colri’ (Perspective of Colour)

. . .

General rules.

289,

290,

291

An exceptional case.

292

An experiment.

293

The practice of the prospettiva de colori.

294

The rules of aerial perspective.

295,

296,

297

On the relative density of the atmosphere.

298,

299

On the colour of the atmosphere.

300,

301,

302,

303,

304,

305,

306,

307