The amateur's perspective : being an attempt to present the theory in the simplest form; and so to methodize and arrange the subject, as to render the practice familiarly intelligible to the uninitiated in a few hours of study (1828)
Davenport, Richard, author · London : Printed for the author · leaf 32
ontal and vertical lines. This point, then, may now be supposed the eye of the spectator, (or “ place of the eye,”) and the visual rays proceed towards that, exactly as before represented towards the real “place of the eye,” in Sect. I. diag. 1 : and they will be reflected towards the eye of the… … A A A A the ground plane : B B the base of the picture : a1 b] objects on the ground plane : a2 and b 9 the same reflected : e the eye : e a and e b visual rays ; which by reflection appear to proceed from a 9 and b 2. The dotted lines on the ground plane from a and b to the picture, are lines of…
Perspective
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