A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 321

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

Of those Objects which the Eyes perceive through a Mist or thick Air

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4017025A Treatise on Painting — Of those Objects which the Eyes perceive through a Mist or thick AirJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. CCCXXI.—Of those Objects which the Eyes perceive through a Mist or thick Air.

The nearer the air is to water, or to the ground, the thicker it becomes. It is proved by the nineteenth proposition of the second book^[1], that bodies rise in proportion to their weight; and it follows, that a light body will rise higher than another which is heavy.

↑ This proposition, though undoubtedly intended to form a part of some future work, which never was drawn up, makes no part of the present.

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[1] This proposition, though undoubtedly intended to form a part of some future work, which never was drawn up, makes no part of the present.

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