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An experiment.

When I was once in a place on the sea, at an equal distance from the shore and the mountains, the distance from the shore looked much greater than that from the mountains.

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.
Definition.
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An illustration by experiment.
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A guiding rule.
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An experiment.
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On indistinctness at short distances.
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On indistinctness at great distances.
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disappearance.
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objects.
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