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 in E; and it will also be brighter, because it is nearer to the part which gives them light. According to the 6th rule, which says, that part of the body is to be the lightest, which is nearest to the luminary.



  termination of a reflected light on a ground lighter than that reflex, will not be perceivable; but if such a reflex terminates upon a ground darker than itself, it will be plainly seen; and the more so in proportion as that ground is darker, and vice versa.   reflexes are stronger than single ones, and the shadows which interpose between the com- Rh