Quotation from: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Written by: Leonardo da Vinci


There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the
eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.


95.


Among objects of equal size that which is most remote from the eye
will look the smallest. [Footnote: This axiom, sufficiently clear in
itself, is in the original illustrated by a very large diagram,
constructed like that here reproduced under No. 108.

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