Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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[121.] Problem I.
[122.] Problem II.
[123.] Operation.
[124.] Demonstration.
[125.] Remark.
[126.] Problem III.
[127.] Method II.
[128.] Operation.
[129.] Demonstration.
[130.] Method III.
[131.] Operation.
[132.] Demonstration.
[133.] Remark.
[134.] Problem IV.
[135.] Problem V.
[136.] Operation.
[137.] Demonstration.
[138.] Problem VI.
[139.] Method II.
[140.] Operation.
[141.] Demonstration.
[142.] Method III.
[143.] CHAP. VI.
[144.] Prob. I.
[145.] Prob. II.
[146.] Demonstration.
[147.] Corollary.
[148.] Method II.
[149.] Operation,
[150.] Demonstration.
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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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1414" xml:space="preserve">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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            out running the Riſque of committing ſome
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            conſiderable Fault, which by this Means may be
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            avoided.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head116" xml:space="preserve">CHAP. IV.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1416" xml:space="preserve">Of the Practice of Peſpective upon the Per-
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            ſpective Plane ſtill conſider’d as being upright.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1418" xml:space="preserve">IT often happens that Painters offend all
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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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            a confiderable Diſtance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1419" xml:space="preserve">Their Cuſtom is to
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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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            are working; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1420" xml:space="preserve">whence in the following Caſes,
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            this Practice of theirs will be uſeleſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1421" xml:space="preserve">and ſo to
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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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            particular Caſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1422" xml:space="preserve">therefore we ſhall here add ſome
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            new Problems, which together with the former
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            ones, will take in all Caſes.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Problem</emph>
          I.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1424" xml:space="preserve">75. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1425" xml:space="preserve">To throw Figures which are in the Geometri-
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            cal Plane into Perſpective, when the Eye is at ſo great
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            a Diſtance that it cannot be denoted in the </s>
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