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Adverbs and functional heads : a cross-linguistic perspective / Guglielmo Cinque.
Cinque, GuglielmoDate: 1999- Books
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A complete body of perspective, in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules. The appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies. rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed, in all manner of positions. Together with their projections or shadows, and their reflections by polished plane. The whole performed by uniform, easy, and general methods, for the most part entirely new. In seven books. Adorned with one hundred and thirty copper-plates. The second edition. By John Hamilton Esq; F.R.S. In two volumes.
Hamilton, John, -1747.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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Elements of trigonometry, plane and spherical; With the principle of perspective, and projection of the sphere. By John Wright.
Wright, John (Mathematician)Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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An appendix to the English translation of Commandine's Euclid; wherein the eleventh and twelfth books of the elements are made easy to the meanest capacity, by exhibiting the solids themselves to the eye, instead of their several Pictures or Projections laid down by the several Writers of Elements of Geometry. Atract useful and necessary for Painters, Builders, Gardeners, and all Persons who would inform themselves demonstratively in Perspective, Mensuration, Sphericks, &c. or qualify themselves to read the Works of those who have written farther on solid Geometry. With AN Introduction. Explaining the Projection used by the Ancients, and shewing its Excellency to any other for this Purpose. By Samuel Cunn.
Cunn, Mr. (Samuel).Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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An appendix, or, Second part to the complete treatise on perspective; Containing a brief history of perspective, from the earliest and most authentic accounts of it, down to the eighteenth century, when it first began to flourish in England; in which the methods of practice, used by the ancients, are exemplisied and compared with those now in use. Military perspective; bird's eye views; &c. The appearances of ascending and descending on an upright plane; such deceptions in vision accounted for, and illustrated by stricking representations: with useful and critical remarks on round subjects in general. The application of perspective to scenery; also to a ship; and in landscape; projection on curved surfaces; with other distortions, or anamorphoses; inverse perspective. Also the doctrine of reflection on plane mirrours. And, lastly, it contains a parallel and criticism on all the English authors who have wrote treatises on perspective; and the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor's perspective compared with Guidus Ubaldus, and S'sgravesande. The whole delivered in nine sections, and illustrated by ten plates. Second edition, with additions and improvements. Price one guinea. By Thomas Malton, sen.
Malton, Thomas, 1726-1801.Date: 1800- Pictures
Technical drawing: conventions for drawing arches in architectural elevations and perspectives. Lithograph, 1860.
Date: [1860]Reference: 46082i- Books
Des fous dans la ville? : Gheel (Belgique) et sa thérapie séculaire / Eugeen Roosens ; traduit du Néerlandais par Maddy Buysse et Jacques Dumont en collaboration avec l'auteur.
Roosens, Eugeen, 1934-Date: 1979- Pictures
Mechanical drawing: diagrams and renderings of solid elements in parallel projection. Lithograph, 1860.
Date: [1860]Reference: 46085i- Books
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A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice; on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made Clear, by Various Moveable Schemes, and Diagrams, in the Most Intelligent Manner. In four books. Embellished with an Elegant Frontispiece and Forty-Eight Plates. Containing Diagrams, Views, and Original Designs, in Architecture, &c. By the Author; Elegantly Engraved. Book I. Treats on Optics and Vision, a necessary Introduction to the Theory of Perspective; and contains some Objections to the received Opinions of Light and Colour; Reflection, &c. Book II. Contains the whole useful Theory of Perspective, both rectilinear and curvilinear; with Remarks, and familiar Examples, to illustrate and evince the universality of its Principles; with a full refutation of the absurd opinions which several Persons entertain of Perspective. Book III. Is a copious Treatise on practical Perspective. In which, is first displayed the true Elements of the whole, as deduced from the foregoing Theory; their extensive application is pointed out, and exemplified throughout the whole Book; and, by the most simple means possible, is shewn how to project, perspectively, all kinds of regular objects, from the simplest to the most complex; also, how far it is applicable to irregular Objects. Comprized in twelve Sections, on various Subjects, and adapted to various Professions. Book IV. Treats on shadows in general, in Theory and Practice, projected by the Sun, also by a Torch or Candle; of reflected Light on Objects, and the reflected Images of Objects, on the Surface of Water, and polished, plane Surfaces, of Aireal Perspective, or the effect of Distance, &c. In six Sections, containing nine Plates, which illustrate the whole. By Thomas Malton.
Malton, Thomas, 1726-1801.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
Project K : 'the complete solution of E. Coli' / F.H.C. Crick.
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004Date: 1985- 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]- Books
Consumption, population, and sustainability : perspectives from science and religion / edited by Audrey R. Chapman, Rodney L. Petersen, Barbara Smith-Moran.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Videos
Dr G Hitchings: perspectives from a history of drug discovery.
Hitchings, George H. (George Herbert), 1905-1998.Date: 1988- Journals
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Perspectives in biology and medicine
Date: 1957-- Books
Controlling our destinies : historical, philosophical, ethical, and theological perspectives on the Human Genome Project / edited by Phillip R. Sloan.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Pictures
The Pharos of Alexandria. Coloured etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 2977797i- Pictures
A street in Constantinople. Coloured etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 2150197i- Pictures
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Wotton house and grounds in Surrey. Etching after J. Evelyn, 1653.
Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.Date: 1653Reference: 26674i- Pictures
Seville: buildings and streets. Coloured etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 3185523i- Pictures
Monastery of El Escorial, Madrid: Courtyard of the Evangelists. Coloured etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 3185512i- Pictures
Buen Retiro palace, Madrid. Coloured etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 3185510i- Pictures
Buen Retiro palace, Madrid: the gardens. Coloured etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 3185509i- Pictures
Egypt: a building designated as the palace of Alexander the Great. Coloured engraving, 17--.
Date: [between 1760 and 1792]Reference: 3185903i- Pictures
Toledo, Spain: buildings and streets. Coloured etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 3185533i- Pictures
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving after T. Bowles, 1753.
Date: 1753Reference: 26839i