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465.

OF LIGHT AND SHADOW IN A TOWN.

On the treatment of light for views of towns (465-469).

When the sun is in the East and the eye is above the centre of a town, the eye will

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see the Southern part of the town with its roofs half in shade and half in light, and the same towards the North; the Eastern side will be all in shadow and the Western will be all in light.


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