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A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London


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LDE T0426   CID281  Of the Extremes of a Body, called Profiles or Contours

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The Out-lines or Contours of Bodies, are so faint and indiscernable to the Eye, that they lose themselves at the smallest distance, between the Eye, and the Object: thus a Man cannot distinguish the Face of his nearest Friend, by the Contour; nor has he any other way to know him, but by his Dress, Air, and other circumstances; thus arriving by the Knowledge of the whole, at that of the Part.