Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective
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            ſinding the reſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s754" xml:space="preserve">But yet the Work may be
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            ſhorten’d by the two precedent Problems, as we
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            ſhall ſhew in the following Examples.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Example</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s756" xml:space="preserve">To throw a Pentagon having one Side parallel to
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            the Baſe Line, into Perſpective.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s758" xml:space="preserve">Let A B C D E, be the propoſed Pentagon,
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            wherein draw the Line B D which will be paral-
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            lel to A E, becauſe the Pentagon is a regular
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            one.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s760" xml:space="preserve">Now find the Repreſentation of the ſaid
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            Lines A E and B D, and you will have the Re-
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            preſentation of four of the Corners of the Pen-
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            tagon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s761" xml:space="preserve">and to determine the Repreſentation of
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            the fifth Corner, find the Appearance of
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            Line drawn from C to E, which in this Example
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            is parallel to A B, which is ſuppoſed parallel
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            to the Baſe Line.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Example</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s763" xml:space="preserve">To throw a Parallelogram, divided into ſeveral
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            other Parallelograms into Perſpective.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s765" xml:space="preserve">Let A B C D be a Parallelogram, divided
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0056-04" xlink:href="note-0056-04a" xml:space="preserve">Fig. 17.</note>
            into ſeveral other Parallelograms.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s767" xml:space="preserve">Draw the Line O G thro’ the Eye O parallel to
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            the Side A D, cutting the Horizontal Line in G;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s768" xml:space="preserve">likewiſe draw O F parallel to the Side A B cutting
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            the Horizontal Line in F, and produce the Sides
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            of the Parallelogram, and the Lines dividing it,
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            to the Baſe Line; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s769" xml:space="preserve">then from the Points wherein
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            A D and C B, and the Lines parallel thereto
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            cut the Baſe Line, draw Lines to the Point G. </s>
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            Alſo from the Points wherein A B and C D and
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            their parallels cut the ſaid Line, draw Lines to
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            the Point F, whoſe Interſections with </s>
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