Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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          <pb o="31" file="0063" n="70" rhead="on PERSPECTIVE."/>
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            <emph style="sc">Prob</emph>
          . V.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head67" style="it" xml:space="preserve">50. To find the Repreſentation of a Point, elevated
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          above the Geometrical Planc.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s807" xml:space="preserve">Let G S be the Geometrical Line, and S the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0063-01" xlink:href="note-0063-01a" xml:space="preserve">Fig. 18.</note>
            Station Point: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s808" xml:space="preserve">Make S F, in the Geometrical
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            Line, equal to the Height of the Eye; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s809" xml:space="preserve">and let
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            A be the Seat of the given Line.</s>
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        <div xml:id="echoid-div117" type="section" level="1" n="64">
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            <emph style="sc">Operation</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s811" xml:space="preserve">Aſſume F C in the Geometrical Line, equal to
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            the Height of the Eye, above the Geometrical
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            Plane: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s812" xml:space="preserve">Then draw Lines from the Point A to
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            the Points S and C, and on the Point B, the In-
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            terſection of the Line AS and the Baſe Line,
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            raiſe the Perpendicular BI to the Baſe Line,
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            equal to E B, plus FC; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s813" xml:space="preserve">and the Point I will be
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            the Perſpective ſought.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Demonstration</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s815" xml:space="preserve">51. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s816" xml:space="preserve">Let us ſuppoſe a Plane to paſs thro’ the
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            given Point, and the Eye perpendicular to the
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            Geometrical Plane; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s817" xml:space="preserve">then it is manifeſt, that the
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            Interſection of theſe two Planes is the Line
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            A B S, and the Interſection of the ſaid ſuppos’d
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            Plane and the perſpective Plane, is B I. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s818" xml:space="preserve">Now,
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            let X be this ſuppos’d Plane; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s819" xml:space="preserve">a, b, s, the Point
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0063-02" xlink:href="note-0063-02a" xml:space="preserve">Fig. 19.</note>
            mark’d with the ſame Letters in the precedent
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            Figure, bi the Interſection of this Plane and
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            the perſpective Plane; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s820" xml:space="preserve">O the Eye, and D the
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            propos’d Point: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s821" xml:space="preserve">We are to prove, that if O D
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            be drawn, the Line B I of the precedent Figure
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            will be equal to b i in this Figure.</s>
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