< A Treatise on Painting
Chap. CCXIII.—Of Reverberation.
Reverberations are produced by all bodies of a bright nature, that have a smooth and tolerably hard surface, which, repelling the light it receives, makes it rebound like a foot-ball against the first object opposed to it.
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