Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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[151.] Remarks.
[152.] Method III.
[153.] Operation.
[154.] Demonstration.
[155.] H I: T H:: a X: a T.
[156.] Prob. III.
[157.] Operation.
[158.] Demonstration.
[159.] Prob. IV.
[160.] Method II.
[161.] Operation.
[162.] Method III.
[163.] Remarks.
[164.] CHAP. VII. Of Shadows.
[165.] Of Solar Shadows. Problem I.
[166.] Operation.
[167.] Proe. II.
[168.] Remarks.
[169.] Problem III.
[170.] Of the Shadows of a ſmall Light. Prob. IV.
[171.] Problem V.
[172.] Remarks.
[173.] CHAP. VIII. Of mechanically ſhortning the Operations of Perſpective. 1. WHEN the perſpective Plane is ſup-pos’d perpendicular or upright. Problem I.
[174.] Operation.
[175.] Method II.
[176.] Prob. II.
[177.] Operation.
[178.] Method II.
[179.] Method III.
[180.] The Demonſtration of the two laſt Ways.
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head232" style="it" xml:space="preserve">A Demonſtration of the Inclination of the Looking-
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          Glaſs.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2597" xml:space="preserve">48. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2598" xml:space="preserve">Let A B be a Ray, proceeding from ſome
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0196-01" xlink:href="note-0196-01a" xml:space="preserve">Fig, 75.</note>
            Point of an Object. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2599" xml:space="preserve">We are to demonſtrate,
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            if the Line D I hath the Inclination given to a
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            Picture, and the Looking-Glaſs G H hath the In-
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            clination we have preſcribed, that the Angle
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            B a F, will be equal to the Angle B C D. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2600" xml:space="preserve">Now to
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            prove this, draw the Line F I parallel to the Ho-
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            rizon, then the two Angles I D F and D F I, of
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            the Triangle I D F, are together equal to the
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            Angle D I E; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2601" xml:space="preserve">but the Angle D F I, which is the
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            Inclination of the Looking-Glaſs, is equal
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            half the Angle D I E, leſs half the Angle I F a;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2602" xml:space="preserve">and conſequently it is leſs than the Angle F D I,
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            by the Quantity of the whole Angle I F a: </s>
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            Therefore if the Angle I F a be added to the An-
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            gle D F I, we ſhall have the Angle D F a, equal
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            to the Angle F D I: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2604" xml:space="preserve">Therefore the Angle
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            Fa B will be likewiſe equal to the Angle BCD.</s>
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              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0196-04" xlink:href="note-0196-04a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note>
            Which was to he demonſtrated.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2607" xml:space="preserve">In reaſoning nearly after the ſame Manner,
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            we demonſtrated what is mentioned
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            ning the Inclination of the Mirrour, when the
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            Box is inclin’d a little backwards.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head233" xml:space="preserve">FINIS.</head>
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