{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0015.htm","path":"aor/dv/0015.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0015.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nThe divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.\n17:16 : The division is here the same as in the previous chapter No. 14, and this is worthy of note when we connect it with the fact that a space of about 20 years must have intervened between the writing of the two passages.","title":"Vol. I: I. Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting: 15.","type":"page"}