“It is impossible that the eye should project from itself, by visual rays, the visual virtue, since, as soon as it opens, that front portion [of the eye] which would give rise to this emanation would have to go forth to the object and this it could not do without time. And this being so, it could not travel so high as the sun in a month's time when the eye wanted to see it.”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), II Linear Perspective

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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