Essentials of Perspective: With Illustrations Drawn by the Author (1887)
Miller, Leslie William, 1848-1931 · New York: C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 106
ective; but when seen as they are intended to be seen, they look straight,as they certainly would not do if they had been drawn straight on a flat surface which had been rolled intothe form of a cylinder afterward. ESSENTIALS OF PERSPECTIVE. Now, on the face of it, the attempt to make flat pictures… … \ K if/// w Fig. 128, Any picture—no matter whether it is drawn on a flat surface or on the inside of a cylinder—can appearquite right only when the observers eye—and one eye? at that, remember—is at the station-point. *The reader who cures to investigate the mathematics of curvilinear perspective…
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