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The straight edges of a body will appear broken when they are conterminous with a dark space streaked with rays of light. [Footnote: Here again the diagrams in the original have no connection with the text.]

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

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