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fol. 3v		unpublished 'Chap 6th.  Of Truth of Light' (equivalent 3.343f)
      
      
      
     inaccessible to reflected light . are of course as dark as real shadow
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fol. 4r		unpublished 'Chap 6th.  Of Truth of Light' (equivalent 3.343f)
      
      
      
     that its mass is broken up. and it ^ {usually} becomes also - <merged in> what artist
     call Middle tint. . But those parts of it* which are accidentally in
     Shadow<s>. is usually. by its position . <untouched> inaccessible even
     to the reflected light. and always more inaccessible than the dark
 5   side.  It is therefore . in near objects . and in sunlight . so dark in
     comparison with the high lights - that their relative degrees of
     intensity can be scarcely expressed with real truth - except by the
     jet black of chalk on white paper .
     The effect of objects then . arranges itself into three distinct
10   masses - the high light . the middle tint . and the shadow.  it
     being always remembered that the middle tint embraces . both
     parts exposed <to> obliquely to the ^ {direct} light - <and> touched by accidental
     shadows - and parts turned away from the {direct} light - exposed
     to accidental ^ {reflected} light<s>.         and that the shadow - whether it occur
15   as it continually does - in pieces on the dark side - or on luminous
     parts of other objects . is that part of anything which receives
     neither direct . nor reflected light.*
     All this has been rather definition of terms than affirmation of
     facts - at least that facts are such as are evident at a thought.
20   But I must now beg the reader to confirm what I am farther to say

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