“A luminous body when obscured by a dense atmosphere will appear smaller; as may be seen by the moon or sun veiled by fogs.”

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IV Perspective of Disappearance

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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