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Hendrik Hondius (1573-)

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Type of entity: Person

Name: Hendrik Hondius

Date of birth: 1573

Source of information: Special Collections

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Bedford Collection A072: 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 reflectio 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. By Joseph Moxon hydrographe to the Kings most excellent Majesty