Joseph Moxon, Practical Perspective (1670)
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Date
1670
Author
Book title
Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie teaching by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c., by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences, so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe, by the dioptircks, how to draw parts of many figures into one, when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces
Publication place
London
Printer
Joseph Moxon
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
art
Summary
19 definitions of aspects of perpective, and 18 word-entries that give "An Explanation of such Un-usual words as you may find in this Book."
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: "DEFINITION VIII. Lines of Distance, or Diagonals, are those Lines that are drawn from the point of Distance, to any point either above or below the Hori|zon. As in Oper. III. the line b k i, is a line of Di|stance: So is the lines b d l h."
"Newel. is the upright post a pair of winding stairs winde about."
sample: "DEFINITION VIII. Lines of Distance, or Diagonals, are those Lines that are drawn from the point of Distance, to any point either above or below the Hori|zon. As in Oper. III. the line b k i, is a line of Di|stance: So is the lines b d l h."
"Newel. is the upright post a pair of winding stairs winde about."
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