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 603
centre of view as the eye. Vanishing points^ are points in a picture to which all lines convergethat in the original object are parallel to each other. Parallel persjpective.—An object is said to be seen in parallel perspec-tive when one of its sides is parallel to the plane of the picture. Angular… … Fis. 4. ■l! plane, the same letters designating similar planes and points as in fig.3. From the point m draw a line to the point of sight C, and also to thestation point S, at the intersection of the line m S with the base line M S\erect a perpendicular cutting the line m C, the intersection mJ…
