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Appleton's cyclopædia of drawing, designed as a textbook for the mechanic, architect, engineer, and surveyor (1866)

Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed, Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1866. D. Appleton & co.) [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 551

An illustration from Appleton's cyclopædia of drawing, designed as a textbook for the mechanic, architect, engineer, and surveyor, 1866, leaf 551
hed in proportion to its divergence from the plane of the horizon. Thus in fig. 19, it will be seenthat a horizontal surlace receivesan equal portion of light with theinclined surface resting upon it,and as the inclined surface is ofri„ 19, greater extent, it will be darker than the horizontal in… … TOPOGRAPHICAL DRAWING. 353 In tlie German system as proposed by Major Lelimann, of representingthe slopes of ground by a scale of shade, the slope at an angle of 45°, asreflecting its light horizontally, is supposed to be the greatest ever requiredto be shown, and is represented by black, whilst…

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