F. H. Richardson's bluebook of projection (1935)

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\^*&ImJo»CL*4 CHAPTER V. LENSES AND MIRRORS (1) Before the projectionist can hope to deal intelligently with lenses and their action upon light, he must understand certain basic laws, one of which has to do with light intensity at varying distances from an open light source. It reads: (2) "Light intensity decreases inversely as the square of the distance from its source. " Figure 30 (3) In Fig. 30 we see an open light source with three screens, A, B and C, located one foot, two feet and three feet respectively from the light. Screen A, we will assume, is exactly one foot high and one foot wide. It therefore represents one square foot of area. Screen B located two feet from the light, has twice the dimensions of screen A and is 4 feet square. Screen C is 3 feet 101