A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 219

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A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud

Of the Termination of Reflexes on their Grounds

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4010570A Treatise on Painting — Of the Termination of Reflexes on their GroundsJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. CCXIX.—Of the Termination of Reflexes on their Grounds.

The termination of a reflected light on a ground lighter than that reflex, will not be perceivable; but if such a reflex terminates upon a ground darker than itself, it will be plainly seen; and the more so in proportion as that ground is darker, and vice versa^[1].

↑ See chap. ccxv. and ccxvii.

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[1] See chap. ccxv. and ccxvii.

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