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aerial perspective air-tint arcade arch Aristippus Art of Painting artist Athenæus base line Bramantino Brook Taylor building CALLIXENUS carry a line centre chimney Chippaway CHRISTODORUS circle colours cular Democritus depth diagonal f diagrams ditto Donaries door dotted line draw a line draw lines elevation ellipsis equal farther figure folio front give the perspective gonal ground ground-plan Harpocration hath written horizontal and base horizontal line inclined junction Laërt laid light line drawn line of contact LINEAL London meets the perpendicular mode objects obtained painters parallel parallelograms pendicular perpendi perspective drawing Photius picture plane of delineation PLATE Plinie point of sight POLEMON produced proper vanishing point Published by T.H.Fielding racter represent roof rules Serlio shadows shew shewn sides sketch soffit Sopater spectator spective station student Suidas suppose surface tance thickness things tints tion tive trees vertical line visual rays wall width XENOCRATES
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Page 149 - One particular only (though it may appear trifling) I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat, and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask ; but catching the cat (which he knew by feeling) he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down, said, so puss ! I shall know you another time.
Page 148 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes (as he express'd it) as what he felt did his skin...
Page 150 - ... less, never being able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw ; the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could be bigger.
Page 150 - ... could look bigger. Before he was couched, he expected little advantage from seeing, worth undergoing an operation for, except reading and writing; for he said, he thought he could have no more pleasure in walking abroad than he had in the garden, which he could do safely and readily.
Page 149 - He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape, or magnitude, but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again; but having too many objects to learn at once, he forgot many of them : and (as he said) at first he learned to know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day.
Page 150 - ... to express it; but his gratitude to his operator he could not conceal, never seeing him for some time without tears of joy in his eyes, and other marks of affection : and if he did not happen to come at any time when he was expected, he would be so griev'd that he could not forbear crying at his disappointment.
Page 150 - And even blindness, he observed, had this advantage, that he could go any where in the dark much better than those who can see; and after he had seen, he did not soon lose this quality, nor desire a light to go about the house in the night.
Page 149 - We thought he soon knew what pictures represented, which were shewed to him, but we found afterwards we were mistaken; for about two months after he was couched, he discovered...
Page 149 - ... about two months after he was couched, he discovered at once they represented solid bodies, when to that time he considered them only as party-coloured planes, or surfaces diversified with variety of paint; but even then he was no less surprised, expecting the pictures would feel like the things they represented, and was amazed when he found those parts, which by their light and shadow appeared now round and uneven, felt only flat like the rest, and asked which was the lying sense, feeling or...