Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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            <emph style="sc">Problem</emph>
          VIII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1089" xml:space="preserve">59. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1090" xml:space="preserve">To throw a Priſm or Cylinder into Perſpective,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-01" xlink:href="note-0079-01a" xml:space="preserve">Fig. 26.</note>
            both of them being Perpendicular to the Geometri-
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            cal Plane.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1092" xml:space="preserve">Let G H I L M N be the Baſe of the Priſm
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            in the Geometrical Plane, and the viſible Part
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            thereof upon the perſpective Plane, let be n g h i;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1093" xml:space="preserve">then to compleat the Repreſentation of the
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            Priſm, draw Perpendiculars from the Points
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            n g h and i to the Baſe Line, whoſe Length let
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            be ſuch that they may repreſent
              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-02" xlink:href="note-0079-02a" xml:space="preserve">55.</note>
            lars to the Geometrical Plane, equal to the
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            Height of the Priſm, and find the
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            of the other Angular Points of the upper Sur-
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            face of the Priſm, in confidering them as Points
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            elevated above the Geometrical Plane: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1094" xml:space="preserve">This
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            being done, if the Repreſentations of all the
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            ſaid Angular Points be joyn’d, the whole
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            Priſm will be thrown into Perſpective.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1096" xml:space="preserve">Now to throw a Cylinder into Perſpective,
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            the Repreſentation of its Baſe and upper Sur-
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            face muſt firſt be had, by finding the
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            ance of ſeveral Points of the Periphery of its
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            upper Surface, and then two Perpendiculars
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            muſt be ſo drawn to the Baſe Line, that they
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            may touch the Appearances of the two circular
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            Euds of the Cylinder, and the Appearance of
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            the Cylinder will be had. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1097" xml:space="preserve">But to avoid uſeleſs
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            Operations, the viſible Part of the Baſe of the
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            Cylinder may be thus determin’d. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1098" xml:space="preserve">Draw the
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            Line A S from the Point A to the Station Point S,
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            then this Line muſt be biſected in the Point R,
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            about which, as a Centre, and with the Radius
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            R A, the Circular Arc B A C, muſt be deſcrib’d
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            cutting the Baſe of the Cylinder in the </s>
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