Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ..: illustrated with fifty-six copper plates . rom. /c:,/p PER i6t on the infide, as G and H are, you {hould not draw from thepoint F, but from E ; by reafon that the line of interfecftion isfound between the two; confequently the two will cut each otherin the fame points I K. See hg. 3. Of plana viewed dire^ly^ or in front. From the third andfourth articles preceding, and the elevations that follow^ it willappear that my intention is not to ufe geometrical plans, in orderto the drawing of Perfpe£tives ; that being a dou
Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ..: illustrated with fifty-six copper plates . rom. /c:,/p PER i6t on the infide, as G and H are, you {hould not draw from thepoint F, but from E ; by reafon that the line of interfecftion isfound between the two; confequently the two will cut each otherin the fame points I K. See hg. 3. Of plana viewed dire^ly^ or in front. From the third andfourth articles preceding, and the elevations that follow^ it willappear that my intention is not to ufe geometrical plans, in orderto the drawing of Perfpe£tives ; that being a double labour, andthere being very few painters who would give themfelves thetrouble, fince I teach them to do the fame thing by the ufe ofthe terreftrial line. But, as there is no rule (o general but has its exceptions, (othere are certain figures that cannot be put in Perfpe£tive with-out the ufe of fuch plans; befides the confufion a man would beunder, fhould a plane be given him to put in Perfpective, if hehad not been inftructed how to proceed. On thefe confiderations I have been induced to give the fol-lowing
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