Quotation from: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Written by: Leonardo da Vinci


If the eye remains stationary the perspective terminates in the
distance in a point. But if the eye moves in a straight [horizontal]
line the perspective terminates in a line and the reason is that
this line is generated by the motion of the point and our sight;
therefore it follows that as we move our sight [eye], the point
moves, and as we move the point, the line is generated, &c.


An illustration by experiment.

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