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

Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 73

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the distance from D to Cbear the same proportion to the width of thepicture as it does in the map. Then nailingthe picture to the floor, face up, I put a bradawlin the place where D should be, and with a chalkedstring covered the whole surface of the water withsquares of equal size, as in the next… … were too long, or seemed twisted or out of ing-points for all my buildings, besides making position, I made them right, and then I corrected sure that the keels and beams of my craft were at the picture from the plan. right angles to each other. By means of D I could also find proper vanish- Now…

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