Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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The AuTHOR’S
PREFACE.
THE Reader will wonder, per-
haps, to find me entring into
a Path, which ſeems to have
been too much trodden already;
and eſteem as uſeleſs a New
Eſſay, on an Art, whoſe Sub-
ject (one would think) ſhould have been
long before this Time exhauſted;
ſince there
have been ſo many Perſons, who have writ-
ten on the ſame.
The Name of Perſpective now ſeems to
ſound unple aſant in the Ears of the Publick
Enemies of Repetition;
and it may be look d
upon as a Piece of Inadvertency, to venture
to treat again on that ſame Subject.
Yet,
notwithst anding this, I deſire the Render to
ſuſpend his Cenſure, until he h{as} heard

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