IV. Perspective of Disappearance: 227.

IV. Perspective of Disappearance: 227.

227.

On indistinctness at short distances (227-231).If you place an opaque object in front of your eye at a distance of four fingers' breadth, if it is smaller than the space between the two eyes it will not interfere with your seeing any thing that may be beyond it. No object situated beyond another object seen by the eye can be concealed by this [nearer] object if it is smaller than the space from eye to eye.

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