ed illustration shows the eifect of thesides of the street appearing, as the distance isincreased, to tend inwards when the spectatorstands in the middle of the street. In this illustration, the rays of light proceedingfrom the remote extremities are inside of the raysproceeding from the near… … that ohserved by a spectator standing in themiddle of the street, and to whom the sides of thestreet appear to tend inwards as the distance isincreased. If the observer change his position, and,standing in the middle of the footway on theright of the cut, look down the footway, he willfind that,…
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![An illustration from Perspectiva; hierinnen auffs kürtzte beschrieben, mit Exempeln eröffnet vnd an Tag gegeben wird, ein newer besonder kurtzer, doch gerechter vnnd sehr leichter Weg, wie allerley Ding, es seyen Corpora, Gebew, oder was möglich zuerdencken vnd in Grund zulegen ist, verruckt oder vnuerruckt, frener in die Perspectyf gebracht werden mag, on einige vergebliche Linie, riss vñ Puncten, [et]c. dergleichen Weg bisshero noch nit bekant gewesen (1571)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-perspectivahieri00lenc-32-19.webp)