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TABLE OF CHAPTERS.

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Chap.

299. Contrary Opinions in regard to Objects seen afar off. 142.
300. Of the Colour of Objects remote from the Eye. 143.
301. Of the Colour of Mountains. 163.
302. Why the Colour and Shape of Objects are lost in some Situations apparently dark, though not so in Reality. 110.
303. Various Precepts in Painting. 340.

AERIAL PERSPECTIVE.

304. Aerial Perspective. 165.
305. The Parts of the smallest Objects will first disappear in Painting. 306.
306. Small Figures ought not to be too much finished. 282.
307. Why the Air is to appear whiter as it approaches nearer to the Earth. 69.
308. How to paint the distant Part of a Landscape. 68.
309. Of precise and confused Objects. 72.
310. Of distant Objects. 355.
311. Of Buildings seen in a thick Air. 312.
312. Of Towns and other Objects seen through a thick Air. 309.
313. Of the inferior Extremities of distant Objects. 315.
314. Which Parts of Objects disappear first by being removed farther from the Eye, and which preserve their Appearance. 321.
315. Why Objects are less distinguished in proportion as they are farther removed from the Eye. 319.
316. Why Faces appear dark at a Distance. 320.
317. Of Towns and other Buildings seen through a Fog in the Morning or Evening. 325.
318. Of the Height of Buildings seen in a Fog. 324.

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