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Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

by Leonardo da Vinci

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Of the Highest Lights Which Turn and Move as the Eye Moves Which Sees the Object.

Suppose the body to be the round object figured here and let the light be at the point a, and let the illuminated side of the object be b c and the eye at the point d: I say that, as lustre is every where and complete in each part, if you stand at the point d the lustre will appear at c, and in proportion as the eye moves from d to a, the lustre will move from c to n.

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