Quotation from: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Written by: Leonardo da Vinci


[Footnote: 51. In this problem the eye is conceived of as fixed and
immovable; this is plain from line 11.]


Experimental proof of the existence of the pyramid of sight (52-55).


52.


Perspective is a rational demonstration, confirmed by experience,
that all objects transmit their image to the eye by a pyramid of
lines.

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