248

objects.

Of objects equally dark in themselves and situated at a considerable and equal distance, that will look the darkest which is farthest above the earth.

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.
. . .
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,
260,
261,
262
. . .