A treatise of opticks direct. Shewing, By New Observations, and from New Principles, how objects are apprehended by the visive sense, with Respect to their Distance from the Eye, and their Oblique Situation. Delivering also Plain Rules for Drawing Pictures against a Wall, to be seen Obliquely; which are likewise Applicable to the Carving Statues, to be set in high Places. To which is added, an appendix to perspective: Shewing those who are versed in that Art, the Reason, of some Disproportions in Perspective Draughts, thro' the Ill Placing the Eye; and Delivering a Rule for finding the most Commodious Distance of the Eye from the Object in that Art. By John Shuttleworth, Rector of Oborn and Lillington in the County of Dorset.

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MDCCIX. [1709]