Sacred Texts  Age of Reason  Index 
XV. Astronomy Index
  Previous  Next 

The Da Vinci Notebooks at sacred-texts.com

877.

This will have before it the treatise on light and shade.

The edges in the moon will be most strongly lighted and reflect most light, because, there, nothing will be visible but the tops of the waves of the water  456 .


Footnotes

147:456 5: I have thought it unnecessary to reproduce the detailed explanation of the theory of reflection on waves contained in the passage which follows this.


Next: 878.