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 634
, and the distance of the horizon above theground line at about one-third the height of the picture. Linear perspective is more adapted to the representation of edifices,bridges, interiors, &c., than to that of machinery; it belongs, therefore,rather to the architect than to the engineer or the… … Peofessor Faeish, of Cambridge, has given the term Isometrical Per-spective to a particular projection which represents a cube, as in fig. 1.The words imply that the measure of the representations of the linesforming the sides of each face are equal. The principle of isometric representation…
