Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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            <emph style="sc">Remarks</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2000" xml:space="preserve">What hath been obſerved on the Solar
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            dows, hath no Regard to thoſe mentioned here:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2001" xml:space="preserve">For it matters not in this Problem, whether the
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            perſpective Plane be perpendicular, inclined, or
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            parallel; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2002" xml:space="preserve">becauſe in theſe different Situations, the
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            two Points that are uſed may always be found.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2004" xml:space="preserve">Moreover, it muſt be obſerved, that the third
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            Problem takes in the Shadows of a ſmall
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            as well as thoſe of the Sun; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2005" xml:space="preserve">but not without this
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            Difference, that the Plane which in the third
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            Problem is ſuppoſed parallel to the Sun’s Rays,
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            ought here to be ſuppoſed to paſs through the
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            Light whoſe Shadows are ſought.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head182" xml:space="preserve">CHAP. VIII.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head183" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Of mechanically ſhortning the Operations of
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          Perſpective.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head184" xml:space="preserve">1. WHEN the perſpective Plane is ſup-
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          pos’d perpendicular or upright.</head>
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            <emph style="sc">Problem</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2007" xml:space="preserve">109. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2008" xml:space="preserve">To find the Repreſentations of Figures in
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            the Geometrical Plane.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2010" xml:space="preserve">Let O be the Eye, R H the Baſe Line; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2011" xml:space="preserve">F and
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0153-03" xlink:href="note-0153-03a" xml:space="preserve">Fig. 60</note>
            G the Points denoted with the ſame Letters in
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            Fig. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2012" xml:space="preserve">10. </s>
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          <note symbol="*" position="right" xml:space="preserve">31.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2014" xml:space="preserve">Then take a Ruler and faſten to the Point G,
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            ſo that it may turn about the ſame in ſuch man.</s>
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