III. Six Books on Light and Shade: 172.

III. Six Books on Light and Shade: 172.

172.

When the light of the atmosphere is restricted [by an opening] and illuminates bodies which cast shadows, these bodies being equally distant from the centre of the window, that which is most obliquely placed will cast the largest shadow beyond it.

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