That the contrary is impossible.

 

It is impossible that the eye should project from itself, by visual

rays, the visual virtue, since, as soon as it opens, that front

portion [of the eye] which would give rise to this emanation would

have to go forth to the object and this it could not do without

time.

 

And this being so, it could not travel so high as the sun in a

month's time when the eye wanted to see it. And if it could reach

the sun it would necessarily follow that it should perpetually

remain in a continuous line from the eye to the sun and should

always diverge in such a way as to form between the sun and the

eye the base and the apex of a pyramid.

 

This being the case, if the eye consisted of a million worlds, it

would not prevent its being consumed in the projection of its virtue;

and if this virtue would have to travel through the air as perfumes

do, the winds would bent it and carry it into another place. But we

do [in fact] see the mass of the sun with the same rapidity as

[an object] at the distance of a braccio, and the power of sight is not

disturbed by the blowing of the winds nor by any other accident.

 

 

Keith's Ideas:

1. Seeing is a passive process.

2. It is not how other see you, but how you project your image.

3. It is not how others see things, it is how you craft the things for

    it to be seen.

 

 

Keith To

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