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The elements of optics. In four books. Book I. Simple Optics, or Direct Vision. Book II. Catoptrics, or Reflected Vision. Book III. Dioptrics, or Refracted Vision. Book IV. The Construction of Optical Instruments.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Practical perspective. Being a course of lessons, exhibiting easy and concise rules for drawing justly all sorts of objects. Adapted to the Use of Schools. By H. Clarke. In two volumes. Vol.1.
Clarke, Henry, 1743-1818.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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An essay on perspective. Written in French by William-James 's Gravesande, Doctor of Laws and Philosophy; Professor of Mathematicks and Astronomy at Leyden, and Fellow of the Royal Society at London. And now translated into English.
Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, 1688-1742.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice; on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made Clear, in Theory, by Various Moveable Schemes, and Diagrams; and Reduced to Practice, in the Most Familiar and Intelligent Manner, Shewing How to Delineate All Kinds of Regular Objects, by Rule. The Theory and Projection of Shadows, by Sun-Shine, and by Candle-Light. The Effects of Reflected Light, on Objects; their Reflected Images, on the Surface of Water, and on Polished, Plane Surfaces, in all Positions. The Whole Explicitly Treated; and Illustrated, in a Great Variety of Familiar Examples. in four books. An Elegant Frontispiece, and Forty-Eight Plates. Containing Diagrams, Views, and Original Designs, in Architecture, &c. Neatly Engraved. All Originals; Invented, delineated, and, great part, engraved by the Author. Thomas Malton.
Malton, Thomas, 1726-1801.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]