Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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            to the Eye. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s478" xml:space="preserve">Now, as in the latter Situation,
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            Repreſentatious are drawn upon the Face of the
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            Perſpective Plane next to the Object, the Per-
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            ſpective Plane lying down upon its other Face;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s479" xml:space="preserve">what ought to be on the Right Hand, appears on
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            the Left; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s480" xml:space="preserve">and that on the Left, appears on the
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            Right; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s481" xml:space="preserve">producing exactly the ſame Effect, as
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            looking thro’ the Back-ſide of a Paper, at a Pi-
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            cture drawn thereon.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s483" xml:space="preserve">Yet, notwithſtanding this Deficiency, we pre-
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            fer the latter way of the Perſpective Plane’s ly-
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            ing down to the former, for the following Rea-
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            ſons.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s485" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s486" xml:space="preserve">When the Perſpective Plane lies down in
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            the former manner, it lies upon the Part of the
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            Geometrical Plane wherein Figures have been
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            drawn; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s487" xml:space="preserve">which, together with the new Lines that
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            muſt be drawn, cauſes a very great Confuſion,
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            and always obliges one to copy his Work. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s488" xml:space="preserve">An
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            Inconveniency which the latter Method is ſel-
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            dom ſubject to.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s490" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s491" xml:space="preserve">We work with much more Eaſe in the
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            manner I have choſen.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s493" xml:space="preserve">Finally, The Default we have obſerv’d, may
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            ſeveral ways be remedied. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s494" xml:space="preserve">For, in drawing up-
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            on the Geometrical Plane, we need but place
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            that on the Right Hand which we have a mind
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            ſhould appear on the Left; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s495" xml:space="preserve">or if the Geometri-
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            cal Plane be drawn upon Paper, it may be oil’d,
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            or dipp’d in Varniſh, which will render it tran-
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            ſparent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s496" xml:space="preserve">and then the Back-ſide of the Paper
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            may be thrown into Perſpective.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s498" xml:space="preserve">If all this be not found convenient, the ſaid
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            Default may be eaſily corrected geometrically,
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            in copying the Work after the Drawings are fi-
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            niſhed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s499" xml:space="preserve">And this may be yet eaſier done, if
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            the Figures are expoſed before a Looking-glaſs;</s>
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