VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 441.
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VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 441.

441.

The distribution of light and shade with reference to the position of the spectator (441-443).The shadows of trees placed in a landscape do not display themselves in the same position in the trees on the right hand and those on the left; still more so if the sun is to the right or left. As is proved by the 4th which says: Opaque bodies placed between the light and the eye display themselves entirely in shadow; and by the 5th: The eye when placed between the opaque body and the light sees the opaque body entirely illuminated. And by the 6th: When the eye and the opaque body are placed between darkness and light, it will be seen half in shadow and half in light.

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Footnotes

  1. 222:219

    : See the figure on the right hand side of Pl. XXVIII, No. 3. The first five lines of the text are written below the diagram and above it are the last eight lines of the text, given as No. 461.

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