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Nature's laws and the making of pictures (1903)

Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 71

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and to keep thetower square and not longer on one side thanthe other. Perhaps I can make this more clear with adiagram. In the upper part of it is the groundplan of a building with a square tower beside it,something like the last three drawings. Near thelower left-hand corner I have marked the… … the drawing. Across these I have ruled threestraight lines to represent the planes of the threepictures. The upper one, you will notice, is parallelto the ends of the houses and quay, and at rightangles to the line that runs from the eye to thevanishing-point at the foot of the flagstaff. We…

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