Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's
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An essay on perspective
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ner, that right Lines drawn along one of its Sides,
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may paſs through the Point G. </
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faſten one End of a Thread, put through the Eye
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of a Needle B, in the Point F; </
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ſaid Thread about a Pin faſten’d in the Point O;
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ways kept tight by means of a Plummet fix’d to
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its other End, and freely hanging under the Tube. </
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Note, The aforeſaid Needle onght to be Braſs or
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Silver, ſharp at both Ends, and having its Eye
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Points of the Needle, which is nigheſt to the
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Eye thereof, upon the ſaid Point A, and move
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the Ruler G E, until it cuts the Thread A F, in
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the Point E, wherein the ſaid Thread cuts the
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Ruler cuts the Thread A O, is the Point ſought,
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and it may be marked with that Point of the
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Needle fartheſt diſtant from its Eye, having firſt
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preſſed the Ruler down upon the Paper and Thread,
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Points be found. </
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lowing Method.</
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and F I the Geometrical Line. </
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M N, having two Threads equal in Length
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faſten’d to it, and about O as a Center, and </
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