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disappearance.

An object which is [so brilliantly illuminated as to be] almost as bright as light will be visible at a greater distance, and of larger apparent size than is natural to objects so remote.

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,
259
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