137.

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137.

SHOWS HOW LIGHT FROM ANY SIDE CONVERGES TO ONE POINT.

Experiments on the relation of light and shadow within a room (137--140).Although the balls a b c are lighted from one window, nevertheless, if you follow the lines of their shadows you will see they intersect at a point forming the angle n.

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Footnotes

81:59 : The diagram belonging to this passage is slightly sketched on Pl. XXXII; a square with three balls below it. The first three lines of the text belonging to it are written above the sketch and the six others below it.