Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's
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An essay on perspective
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Points be found , the Repreſentations of
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Shadows will be had.</
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how to draw the Hour Lines upon any
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Kind of Plane, by means of an Horizon-
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">PERSPECTIVE is not only uſeſul in
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drawing, but likewiſe in other Parts of Ma-
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the Extremity of the Style be conceived as the
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Eye, and the Sun’s Rays as viſual Rays, all
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poſſible Kinds of Dials may be drawn for the
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ſame Latitude, by Means of an Horizontal Dial,
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as we are now going to ſhew,</
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H I M L a Plane, upon which a Dial is to be
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the Extremity of its Style F G, coincides with
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the Extremity of the Style of the Horizontal
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Dial; </
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Lines of the Horizontal Dial A B C D, be found
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upon the Plane H I M L, in conceiving the
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Point F as the Eye, it is evident , that
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Shadow of the Point F, will fall upon the ſaid
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Perſpective, at the ſame Time that it falls
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upon the Hour Line, whereof it is the Per-
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ſpective; </
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