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 /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed by Joseph Moxon, and sold at his shop ...,
1670.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([6], 66 pages, [42] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations. |