Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, 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. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2016" xml:space="preserve">This being done,
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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; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2017" xml:space="preserve">and then put the
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            ſaid Thread about a Pin faſten’d in the Point O;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2018" xml:space="preserve">ſo that when the Thread is uſing, it may be al-
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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. </s>
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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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            pretty near one of them.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div322" type="section" level="1" n="174">
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            <emph style="sc">Operation</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2021" xml:space="preserve">Let A be a Point of the Figure to be thrown
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            into Perſpective. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2022" xml:space="preserve">Now place that of the two
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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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            Baſe Line; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2023" xml:space="preserve">and then the Point a, wherein 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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            that ſo the Plummet may not make the Thread
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            ſlip. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2024" xml:space="preserve">And in this manner may any Number of
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            Points be found. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2025" xml:space="preserve">This is demonſtrated in N. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2026" xml:space="preserve">32.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2027" xml:space="preserve">Sometimes it is more convenient to uſe the fol-
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            lowing Method.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div323" type="section" level="1" n="175">
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            <emph style="sc">Method</emph>
          II.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2029" xml:space="preserve">110. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2030" xml:space="preserve">Let O be the Eye, H E the Baſe Line,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0154-01" xlink:href="note-0154-01a" xml:space="preserve">Fig. 61.</note>
            and F I the Geometrical Line. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2031" xml:space="preserve">Take a Ruler
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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 </s>
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