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VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 423.
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VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 423.

423.

OF THE SHADOWS OF A LEAF.

The proportions of light and shade in a leaf (423-426).Sometimes a leaf has three accidents [of light] that is: shade, lustre [reflected light] and transparency [transmitted light]. Thus, if the light were at n as regards the leaf s, and the eye at m, it would see a in full light, b in shadow and c transparent.

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