III. Six Books on Light and Shade: 116.

116.

Let a be the light, b the eye, c the object seen by the eye and in the light. These show, first, the eye between

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the light and the body; the 2nd, the light between the eye and the body; the 3rd the body between the eye and the light, a is the eye, b the illuminated object, c the light.