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III. Six Books on Light and Shade: 168.

168.

Both the primary and derived shadow will be larger when caused by the light of a candle than by diffused light. The difference

between the larger and smaller shadows will be in inverse proportion to the larger and smaller lights causing them.

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Footnotes

  1. 95:74

    : In the diagrams A stands for celo (sky), B for cadela (candle).

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