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disappearance.

OF LIGHT AND SHADE.

You who draw from nature, look (carefully) at the extent, the degree, and the form of the lights and shadows on each muscle; and in their position lengthwise observe towards which muscle the axis of the central line is directed.

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

III * V
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,
254,
255,
256,
257,
258
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