Walker, William, b. 1821 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 200
ig. * McCosh and Balfour. On Trees. ^ 171 135. In studying trees whose masses of leaves are some-what long and which have a tendency to droop, we shouldbe careful to observe the manner in which they foreshorten,as they retire at the sides of the tree. It might be supposedthat perspective had but… … Fig. 135. has to do (apart from the atmosphere) with two propertiesof bodies, their shape and their size : with their shapeaccording to the position in which they are viewed, andwith their size according to their distance from thespectator. Figs. 119 and 120 were carefully copied fromthe same…
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