Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's
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An essay on perspective
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drawn upon the Geometrical Plane, and the
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principal Points of the Objects without the ſaid
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Plane, need only be thrown into Perſpective.
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">Which being once obtained, he may make uſe
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of theſe Appearances ſo found, as a Rule where-
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by the reſt may be compleated by the Eye, with-
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conſiderable Fault, which by this Means may be
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ſpective Plane ſtill conſider’d as being upright.</
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Rules of true Appearance when they paint
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Pictures to ſtand aloft, to be ſeen Sideways, or at
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paint Pictures to be view’d, after the ſame Man-
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ner as they themſelves look at them when they
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avoid enormous Faults, they are neceſſitated to
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have recourſe to Perſpective But what has been
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ſaid in the laſt Chapter, does not reach theſe
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