London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 443
, in delineatingoriginal objects in a picture, which shall, at any distance, convey the nearestapproximation to the true image to the mind. This disagreement betweentheory and observation was partly perceived by the Jesuit in his system ofperspective (see p. 128.); and he endeavoured to rectify the… … less to the eye, when placed directly over one another. For instance, in theabove diagram, where s is the point of sight and centre of picture, and v thepoint of distance, 80 ft, Y x is the representation on a plane of a standard70 ft. high, which standard, from s to x, is divided into equal…
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