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III. Six Books on Light and Shade: 180.

180.

A body in light and shade placed between two equal lights side by side will cast shadows in proportion to the [amount of] light. And the shadows will be one darker than the other in proportion as one light is nearer to the said body than the other on the opposite side.

A body placed at an equal distance between two lights will cast two shadows, one deeper than the other in proportion, as the light which causes it is brighter than the other.

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Footnotes
  1. 101:85

    : In the MS. the larger diagram is placed above the first line; the smaller one between l. 4 & 5.

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