{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0214.htm","path":"aor/dv/0214.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0214.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nNo small hole can so modify the convergence of rays of light as to prevent, at a long distance, the transmission of the true form of the luminous body causing them. It is impossible that rays of light passing through a parallel [slit], should not display the form of the body causing them, since all the effects produced by a luminous body are [in fact] the reflection of that body: The moon, shaped like a boat, if transmitted through a hole is figured in the surface [it falls on] as a boatshaped object. 102 Why the eye sees bodies at a distance, larger than they measure on the vertical plane?.\nOn gradation of shadows (215. 216).\n118:102 8: In the MS. a blank space is left after this question.\n118:103 : This chapter, taken from another MS. may, as an exception, be placed here, as it refers to the same subject as the preceding section.","title":"Vol. I: III. Six Books on Light and Shade: 214.","type":"page"}