Perspective for Beginners: Adapted to Young Students and Amateurs in Architecture, Painting, Etc

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Lockwood & Company, 1884 - 168 стор.
 

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Сторінка 94 - A POINT is that which has position, but not magnitude*." (See Notes.) 2. A line is length without breadth. " COROLLARY. The extremities of a line are points ; and the intersections " of one line with another are also points.
Сторінка 160 - ... either side of the point opposite the eye would depend on the width of the street. In an open situation we are enabled, by turning round, to see every object for miles distant ; but remaining stationary, and looking in one steady direction, there must be some limit to the extent we see, both to the right and left ; for if we turn the head to the right, we see an additional extent of country on that side, and lose sight of a portion on the other ; and the reverse will be the case if we turn the...
Сторінка 73 - Second will be rendered easy of comprehension to the reader; and we shall be enabled, we trust, to take the problems used for illustrating the descriptions of the First Part, and show how the same things may be constructed from plans drawn from actual measurement in the Second. PERSPECTIVE FOR STUDENTS. PART II. CHAPTER I. BEFORE entering into the matter of the second part of this treatise, it cannot be too strongly impressed on the mind of the student, that Perspective — that is to say, our portion...

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