Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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            the Back-ſide thereof hath in it a Square ope-
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            ning N, each Side being about four Inches in
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            Length, which may be ſhut by the little Board I
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            ſliding between two Rulers.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2331" xml:space="preserve">11. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2332" xml:space="preserve">Overthe ſaid Square opening, there is a Slit
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            parallel to the Horizon, going along the whole
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            Breadth of the Back-ſide of the Box; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2333" xml:space="preserve">through
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            which Slit, a little Mirrour or Looking-Glaſs is to
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            be put into the Box, whoſe two Sides may ſlide be-
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            tween two Rulers ſo placed, that the poliſhed
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            Side of the Glaſs being turn’d towards the Door
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            B, may make an Angle of 112 {1/2} Degrees, with
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            the Horizon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2334" xml:space="preserve">Note, This Diſpoſition of the
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            Looking-glaſs could not well be repreſented in
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            the Figure.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2336" xml:space="preserve">12. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2337" xml:space="preserve">The before-mention’d Mirrour hath a ſmall
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            Iron Plate, on the Middle of that Side which is
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            without the Box, (when the ſaid Looking-glaſs
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            is in the Diſpoſition mention’d in N. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2338" xml:space="preserve">11.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2339" xml:space="preserve">being the
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            Baſe of a Screw faſten’d to the Middle thereof, that
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            ſothe Looking-glaſs may be fix’d upright (as appears
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            per Figure) in any Place H upon the Top of the
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            Machine, and vertically turn all ways; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2340" xml:space="preserve">and this
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            is done by putting the Screw through a Hole
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            made in the plain Board of N. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2341" xml:space="preserve">9. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2342" xml:space="preserve">and through a
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            Slit made for this End in the plain Board of N. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2343" xml:space="preserve">8.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2344" xml:space="preserve">and then fixing it with the Nut R. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2345" xml:space="preserve">Now when
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            the Mirrour is taken from this Situation, the ſaid
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            Slit is ſhut by a ſmall Board ſliding between two
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            little Rulers within the Machine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2346" xml:space="preserve">As to the Slit
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            mention’d N. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2347" xml:space="preserve">11. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2348" xml:space="preserve">it is partly ſhut by the little
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            Board I, when the Aperture N is open’d, and the
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            two Ends thereof remaining open’d, are ſhut by
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            two ſinall Rulers.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2350" xml:space="preserve">13. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2351" xml:space="preserve">There are two Iron Staples on one Side of
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            the Box, like thoſe which are on the
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            of the Machine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2352" xml:space="preserve">in which a Ruler going ſeveral
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            Inches out behind the Box X may ſlide, </s>
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