The boy's holyday book, for all seasons : containing complete instructions for angling, swimming, conjuring, the making of fireworks, cricket, archery, gymnastics, and the various games for boys : numerous scientific experiments & amusements : elucidations of photography, electrotype, and daguerreotype : arithmetical pastimes : the language of the deaf & dumb, &c. : with numerous engravings (1840)
London. : G.H. Davidson · leaf 207
and setting the chafing-dish in it, throw some incense in powder on the coals. You then open the trap door and let down the glass in the groove slowly, and when you perceive the smoke diminish, draw up the glass that the figure may disappear, and shut the trap-door. This exhibition will afford a… … TO DRAW, EASILY AND CORRECTLY, A LANDSCAPE, OR ANY OTHER OBJECT, WITHOUT BEING OBLIGED TO OBSERVE THE RULES OF PERSPECTIVE, AND WITHOUT THE AID OF THE CAMERA OBSCURA. Procure a box of pasteboard, F G H I K L, of about a foot and a half long, and made in the shape of a truncated pyramid, whose base,…
Boys · Amusements
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