There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.[Nessuno corpo fia di tata magnitudine che per lunga distantia all’ochio non apparisca minore che’l minore obietto piv vicino.]
Source:The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Richter, ed. 1883), Volume I, Section 94, Page 57
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