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OCR: In a demonstration of his pyramidal theory of light, Leonardo shows how the sun's rays converge to form pyramids in front of, inside, and beyond the moon and the earth, where he imagined a cone-shaped shadow. He believed that the moon also reflects light back toward the sun.