Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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            Mirrours muſt not be plac’d within the Machine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2269" xml:space="preserve">for
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            in ſuch a cloſe Place, ones Breath will ſully them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2270" xml:space="preserve">but
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            not the Convex Glaſs, becauſe it is encloſed in a
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            Tube.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head214" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Uſe of the
            <emph style="sc">Camera</emph>
            <emph style="sc">Obscura</emph>
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          in Deſigning.</head>
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            <emph style="sc">Definition</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2272" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2273" xml:space="preserve">ACamera Obſcura is any dark Place, in which
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            outward Objects expoſed to Broad-Day-light,
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            are repreſented upon Paper, or any other white
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            Body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2275" xml:space="preserve">The Way to repreſent Objects in the Camera
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            Obſcura, is to make a ſinall Hole in that ſide
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            thereof next to the Objects, and place a Convex-
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            Glaſs therein, then if a Sheet of Paper be ex-
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            tended in the Focus of the ſaid Glaſs, the Objects
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            will appear inverted upon the Paper.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Theorem</emph>
          I.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2277" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2278" xml:space="preserve">The Camera Obſcura gives the true Repreſen-
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            tation of Objects.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2280" xml:space="preserve">The Figures repreſented in the Camera Obſcura
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            are form’d (as is demonſtrated in Dioptricks)
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            by Rays which coming from all the Points of the
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            Objects, paſs through the Centre of the Glaſs:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2281" xml:space="preserve">So that an Eye placed in the ſaid Centre, would
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            perceive the Objects by the ſaid Rays, which
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            conſequently by their Interſection with a Plane,
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            muſt give the true Repreſentation of the Objects. </s>
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            But the Pyramid which the ſaid Rays forms </s>
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