Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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            to the Length of the ſaid Perpendiculars: </s>
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            therefore</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head161" xml:space="preserve">H I: T H:: a X: a T.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1869" xml:space="preserve">But in the Conſtruction of this Problem, be-
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            cauſe the Triangles T C D and T H G, are
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            ſimilar;</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1871" xml:space="preserve">H G = H I: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1872" xml:space="preserve">T H:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1873" xml:space="preserve">: C D = a X: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1874" xml:space="preserve">T D = a T;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1875" xml:space="preserve">and conſequently H I and a X, repreſent Perpen-
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            diculars of the ſame Length. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1876" xml:space="preserve">Which was to be
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            demonſtrated.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Prob</emph>
          . III.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1878" xml:space="preserve">98. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1879" xml:space="preserve">To find the accidental Point of any Number
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            of parallel Lines inclined to the Geometrical Plane.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1881" xml:space="preserve">Let a b be the Perſpective of the Direction
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-01" xlink:href="note-0142-01a" xml:space="preserve">Fig. 55.</note>
            of one of the given Lines.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Operation</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1883" xml:space="preserve">Draw the Line F T L, parallel to a b, through
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            the accidental Point T of the Lines perpendicu-
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            lar to the Geometrical Plane; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1884" xml:space="preserve">and at the Point
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            T, raiſe the Perpendicular T G, which make e-
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            qual to the Diſtance of the Eye from the per-
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            ſpective Plane; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1885" xml:space="preserve">then draw the Line G L, or
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            G F, ſo that the Angle T L G, or T F G, be e-
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            qual to the Angle of the Inclination of the given
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            Lines; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1886" xml:space="preserve">and the Point L, will be the Accidental
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            Point ſought, if the given Lines incline to-
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            wards b; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1887" xml:space="preserve">but if they incline towards a, F will
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            be the Accidental Point.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Demonstration</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1889" xml:space="preserve">It is manifeſt by Conſtruction, that if T G be
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            ſuppoſed to be raiſed perpendicularly to the Geo-
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            metrical Plane, G L or G F, will be parallel </s>
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