Hatton, Richard G · London, Chapman & Hall ld. · leaf 108
ts 73 angle BAG on plan, hence the angle M.P., V.P., eye, isequal to the angle BAG on plan. The base BG, on theplan, was obtained by striking an arc from A as centreand AB as radius. In the same way, on the workingdrawing, we place the point of the compass on V.P., stretchthe pencil to eye, and… … A 1 2. 4 Fio. 49.—Measuring long distances. line, BG crossing one line A, and crossing it in such amanner that it records on the picture-plane AC, the samelength as it serves to measure on AB. It is a point, too,found by the ready means of describing an arc from theeye to the horizon, using V.P. as…
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