{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0429.htm","path":"aor/dv/0429.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0429.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nNever paint leaves transparent to the sun, because they are confused; and this is because on the transparency of one leaf will be seen the shadow of another leaf which is above it. This shadow has a distinct outline and a certain depth of shade and sometimes is [as much as] half or a third of the leaf which is shaded; and consequently such an arrangement is very confused and the imitation of it should be avoided.\nThe light shines least through a leaf when it falls upon it at an acute angle.","title":"Vol. I: VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landsca...","type":"page"}