Small objects close at hand and large ones at a distance, being seen within equal angles, will appear of the same size.
94.
PERSPECTIVE.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
95.
Among objects of equal size that which is most remote from the eye will look the smallest. [Footnote: This axiom, sufficiently clear in itself, is in the original illustrated by a very large diagram, constructed like that here reproduced under No. 108.
The same idea is repeated in C. A. I a; I a, stated as follows: Infra le cose d'equal grandeza quella si dimostra di minor figura che sara più distante dall' ochio.—]
96.
Why an object is less distinct when brought near to the eye, and why with spectacles, or without