Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1694" xml:space="preserve">Note, When V I and T a cut each other ve-
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            ry obliquely, recourſe muſt be had to the Obſer-
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            vation at the End of the aforegoing Method, or
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            the following Way may be uſed.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Method</emph>
          III.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1696" xml:space="preserve">86. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1697" xml:space="preserve">Let T be the accidental Point of the Lines
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-01" xlink:href="note-0126-01a" xml:space="preserve">Fig. 47.</note>
            perpendicular to the Geometrical Plane, thro’
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            which Point draw a parallel to the Baſe Line,
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            in which aſſume T R equal to O T of Fig. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1698" xml:space="preserve">44.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Operation</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1700" xml:space="preserve">Aſſume D N ſomewhere in the Baſe Line, e-
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            qual to the propoſed Line, and draw the Lines
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            D F and N F to the Point F, taken at Pleaſure
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            in the Horizontal Line; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1701" xml:space="preserve">then through the Point
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            a, the Appearance of A, draw the parallel a H,
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            to the Baſe Line, in which aſſume a Q equal
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            to G H. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1702" xml:space="preserve">Then if the Lines T a, and R Q be
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            drawn, and continued, till they cut each other
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            in the Point X, a X will be the Appearance
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            ſought.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Demonstration</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1704" xml:space="preserve">The Part a Q of the Line a H, is the
              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-02" xlink:href="note-0126-02a" xml:space="preserve">56.</note>
            pearance of a Line proceeding from A in the
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            Geometrical Plane, and which is equal to the
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            propoſed Line, and parallel to the Baſe Line;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1705" xml:space="preserve">and conſequently , the Line R Q paſſes
              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0126-03" xlink:href="note-0126-03a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note>
            the Perſpective of the Extremity of the propo-
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            ſed Line: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1706" xml:space="preserve">And therefore X the Interſection of
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            R Q and T a, is the Appearance of the ſaid
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            Extremity.</s>
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