Quotation from: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Written by: Leonardo da Vinci


103.


PERSPECTIVE.


Let _f_ be the level and distance of the eye; and _a_ the vertical
plane, as high as a man; let _e_ be a man, then I say that on the
plane this will be the distance from the plane to the 2nd man.


104.


The differences in the diminution of objects of equal size in
consequence of their various remoteness from the eye will bear among
themselves the same proportions as those of the spaces between the
eye and the different objects.

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