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The apparent size of objects defined by calculation.

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PERSPECTIVE.

Let f be the level and distance of the eye; and a the vertical plane, as high as a man; let e be a man, then I say that on the plane this will be the distance from the plane to the 2nd man.

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

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