Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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            firſt found ; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s851" xml:space="preserve">and then if Lines be drawn
              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0065-01" xlink:href="note-0065-01a" xml:space="preserve">47.</note>
            the Repreſentation of the Vertex touching the
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            Repreſentation of the Baſe, the Repreſentation
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            of the Cone will be had.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s853" xml:space="preserve">But ſince, according to this Manner, we are
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            obliged to find the Perſpective of all the Baſe;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s854" xml:space="preserve">whereas it often cannot be all ſeen; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s855" xml:space="preserve">we may de-
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            termine, by the following Method, what Part
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            of the Baſe is viſible, and ſo only find the Re-
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            preſentation thereof. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s856" xml:space="preserve">And then, to compleat
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            the Cone, we draw Lines from the Extremities
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            of the viſible Part of the Baſe, to the Repreſen-
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            tation of the Vertex.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head72" style="it" xml:space="preserve">53. To determine the viſible Part of the Baſe of
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          a Cone.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s858" xml:space="preserve">Let the Circle L I F be the Baſe of a Cone
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0065-02" xlink:href="note-0065-02a" xml:space="preserve">Fig. 21.</note>
            in the Geometrical Plane, and A the Center
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            thereof.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Operation</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s860" xml:space="preserve">Aſſume P Q ſomewhere in the Baſe Line,
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            equal to the Semidiameter of the Circle L F;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s861" xml:space="preserve">and from the Point P, raiſe P D G perpendicu-
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            lar to the Baſe Line, meeting the Horizontal
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            Line in G; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s862" xml:space="preserve">and in this Perpendicular, make
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            P D equal to the Height of the Cone; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s863" xml:space="preserve">and draw
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            the Line Q D H, meeting the Horizontal Line
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            in H. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s864" xml:space="preserve">Then, about the Point A as a Center,
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            and with the Radius G H, draw the Circle B C E; </s>
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            and from the ſaid Point A, draw a Line to the
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            Station Point S: </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s867" xml:space="preserve">and about
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            R, as a Center, with the Radius R A, deſcribe
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            the Circular Arc B A C, cutting the Circle BEC
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            in the Points B and C. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s868" xml:space="preserve">Draw the Lines B A F,
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            and C A L; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s869" xml:space="preserve">and the viſible Portion, (L I F) </s>
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