Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie : teaching [brace] by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c., by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences, so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe, by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one, when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces : usefull for all painters, engravers, architects, &c., and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Printed by Joseph Moxon, and sold at his shop ..., 1670.
Series:Early English books online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:"First edition. Most of the plates are taken from the Perspective of Hondius (1623) ... as mentioned by Moxon in his preface"--Fowler.
Includes original moving figure and slip of mica on pages 7, and the moving slip on plate LVII.
Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([6], 66 pages, [42] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations.