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The boy's own book; (1834)

[Clarke, William], 1800-1838 · Boston, Munroe and Francis · leaf 126

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uite different. INGENIOUS ANAMORPHOSIS, This recreation shows how to draw, on a flat surface, an irregular figure,which shall appear, when seen from a proper point of view, not only regUlar, but elevated. Provide a thin board, about two feet long and one footwide, as A B C D, and place thereon a… … Fix, at the end of the board, an upright piece, I, of thin wood or tin, altlie top of which is a sight-hole, H, of two-tenths of an inch in diameter. Prepare a lamp, or candlestick, the light of which may be raised or low-ered at pleasure, and to which is fixed a brass arm, bearing a sort of…

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