304

On the colour of the atmosphere.

The atmosphere is blue by reason of the darkness above it because black and white make blue.

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VI: ’Prospettiva de’ colri’ (Perspective of Colour)

. . .

General rules.

289,

290,

An exceptional case.

An experiment.

The practice of the prospettiva de colori.

The rules of aerial perspective.

295,

296,

On the relative density of the atmosphere.

298,

On the colour of the atmosphere.

300,

301,

302,

303,

304,

305,

306,