{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0901.htm","path":"aor/dv/0901.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0901.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nAnswer to Maestro Andrea da Imola, who said that the solar rays reflected from a convex mirror are mingled and lost at a short distance; whereby it is altogether denied that the luminous side of the moon is of the nature of a mirror, and that consequently the light is not produced by the innumerable multitude of the waves of that sea, which I declared to be the portion of the moon which is illuminated by the solar rays.\nLet o p be the body of the sun, c n s the moon, and b the eye which, above the base c n of the cathetus c n m, sees the body of the sun reflected at equal angles c n; and the same again on moving the eye from b to a. 478\n162:478 : The large diagram on the margin of page 161 belongs to this chapter.","title":"Vol. II: XV. Astronomy: 901.","type":"page"}