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There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.
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Nothing is written as the result of new researches.
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The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.
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All science which end in words are dead the moment they come to life, except for their manual part, that is to say, the writing, which is the mechanical part.
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Oh! Mediators of perpetual motion, how many vain projects of similar character you have devised! Go and join the seekers of gold.
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Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.
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Experiment is the interpreter of nature. Experiments never deceive. It is our judgment which sometimes deceives itself because it expects results which experiment refuses. We must consult experiment, varying the circumstances, until we have deduced general rules, for experiment alone can furnish reliable rules.
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The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
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If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.
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The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
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If you wish to gain knowledge of the forms of things, begin with the detail and only move from one detail to another when you have fixed the first firmly in your memory and become well acquainted with it.
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He who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion and will never be able to solve the contradiction of sophistical sciences which lead to an everlasting clamour.
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If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.
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He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.
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As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.
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In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
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When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Born:
April 15, 1452
Died:
May 2, 1519
(aged 67)
Bio:
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and painter. His most famous painting is the Mona Lisa.
Known for:
Mona Lisa (1503)
The Last Supper (1498)
The Virgin of the Rocks (1485)
Vitruvian Man
Annunciation (1472)
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