The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete · Chapter 140Of the Diminished Distinctness of the Outlines of Opaque Bodies

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If the real outlines of opaque bodies are indistinguishable at even a very short distance, they will be more so at long distances; and, since it is by its outlines that we are able to know the real form of any opaque body, when by its remoteness we fail to discern it as a whole, much more must we fail to discern its parts and outlines.

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