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Practical perspective; or Perspective made easie. : 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, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity
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