The boy's own book; a complete encylopedia of all the diversion, athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth. (1834)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838, McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · Boston, Munroe and Francis; New York, C. S. Francis, 1834. · leaf 127
different. INGENIOUS ANAMORPHOSIS. _ This recreation shows how to draw, on a flat surface, an irregular figure, which shall appear, when seen from a proper point of view, not only regu- lar, but elevated. Provide a thin board, about two feet long and one foot wide, as A B CD, and place thereon a… … Fix, at the end of the board, an upright piece, I, of thin wood or tin, at the top of which is a sight-hole, H, of two-tenths of an inch in diameter. Prepare a lamp, or candlestick, the light of which may be raised or low- ered at pleasure, and to which is fixed a brass arm, bearing a sort of coni-…
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