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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 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
Moxon, Joseph (1627-1691); Hondius, Hendrik (1573-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Wentworth, Sir John (1673-1720)
1670
The words "perspective made easie." are xylographic. The words "By the opticks,... many faces" are bracketed together on title page. According to Moxon's preface "To the reader", most of the plate...