{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0246.htm","path":"aor/dv/0246.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0246.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nAn opaque body will appear smaller when it is surrounded by a highly luminous background, and a light body will appear larger when it is seen against a darker background. This may be seen in the height of buildings at night, when lightning flashes behind them; it suddenly seems, when it lightens, as though the height of the building were diminished. For the same reason such buildings look larger in a mist, or by night than when the atmosphere is clear and light.","title":"Vol. I: IV. Perspective of Disappearance: 246.","type":"page"}