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look of the same size as it appears to the eye. You see that the
apex of the pyramid f c d is as far from the object c d as the
same point f is from the object a b; and yet c d, which is
the base made by the painter's point, is smaller than a b which
is the base of the lines from the objects converging in the eye and
refracted at s t, the surface of the eye. This may be proved by
experiment, by the lines of vision and then by the lines of the
painter's plumbline by cutting the real lines of vision on one and
the same plane and measuring on it one and the same object.
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PERSPECTIVE.
The vertical plane is a perpendicular line, imagined as in front of
the central point where the apex of the pyramids converge. And this
plane bears the same relation to this point as a plane of glass
would, through which you might see the various objects and draw them
on it. And the objects thus drawn would be smaller than the
originals, in proportion as the distance between the glass and the
eye was smaller than that between the glass and the objects.
PERSPECTIVE.
The different converging pyramids produced by the objects, will
show, on the plane, the various sizes and remoteness of the objects
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