Practical perspective, or, Perspective made easie [microform] : teaching by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. ; by the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe ; by the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one, when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces. Usefull for all painters, engravers architects, Ge. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity. / by Joseph Moxon hydrographer to the Kings most excellent majesty.

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Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.

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Publication:

London : Printed by Joseph Moxon, and sold at his shop in Russel Street, at the signe of Atlas, 1670.

Description:

66 pages, 60 illustrations on 41 plates : illustrations ; cm. (fol.)

Notes:
Micropublished as no. 56 on Reel 9, in "American Architectural Books," based on the Henry-Russell Hitchcock bibliography of the same title. New Haven: Research Publications, Inc., 1972.
Includes original moving figure and slip of mica on p. 7 and the slip on plate LVII. Most of the plates are taken from the Perspective of Hondius, 1623.

Subject:

Perspective Early works to 1800.
Perspective Ouvrages avant 1800.
Perspective
Geometrical drawing

Form/genre:

Early works

Holdings:

Location: Library study room microform 26080
Call No.: ID88B11700s34 MFM; ID:88-B12160
Status: Available

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