A text book of geometrical drawing, for the use of mechanics and schools, in which the definitions and rules of geometry are familiarly explained (1849)
for thesides of the cottage^ for the tops and bottoms of the windows^the ridge and eaves of the roof^ and for the front of the chimney. Figure 2. Let us suppose the parallelogram P. L. W. X. to he a separate pieceof paper laid on the other^ its top edge coinciding with the per-spective plane of… … PLATE LIII. 107 2nd. Draw H, K perpendicular to P. L for a line of heights. 3rd. Draw a line from K to the vanishing point without the pic-ture^ which we will call Z; this will represent the line H. B offig. 1^ continued indefinitely. 4th. From h and d draw perpendiculars to intersect the last…
