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... given to the promotion of practical mathematics , geometrical draw- ing , and perspective . By the former we mean all that relates to the formation and measurement of superficial and solid figures , and those parts of arithmetic which ...
... given to the promotion of practical mathematics , geometrical draw- ing , and perspective . By the former we mean all that relates to the formation and measurement of superficial and solid figures , and those parts of arithmetic which ...
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... given to the promotion of practical mathematics , geometrical draw- ing , and perspective . By the former we mean all that relates to the formation and measurement of superficial and solid figures , and those parts of arithmetic which ...
... given to the promotion of practical mathematics , geometrical draw- ing , and perspective . By the former we mean all that relates to the formation and measurement of superficial and solid figures , and those parts of arithmetic which ...
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... given , it is not unlikely that his " draw- ing - master " will have done his best to counteract the impulse . His geometrical drawing has been probably confined to a clumsy imitation of the figures of his Euclid , with letters that are ...
... given , it is not unlikely that his " draw- ing - master " will have done his best to counteract the impulse . His geometrical drawing has been probably confined to a clumsy imitation of the figures of his Euclid , with letters that are ...
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... given place to teaching , or rather a system that promotes the training of art faculty in contradistinction to the mere penmanship of the art . Instead of a series of pencil sketches or crayon drawings of landscape or the human figure ...
... given place to teaching , or rather a system that promotes the training of art faculty in contradistinction to the mere penmanship of the art . Instead of a series of pencil sketches or crayon drawings of landscape or the human figure ...
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... circumscribent parallelopidedon by combining six perspective squares , and then forming the required solid by the rules given above . Remember that circles become ellipses , and squares 14 HINTS TO YOUNG ARCHITECTS . EYE PERSPECTIVE.
... circumscribent parallelopidedon by combining six perspective squares , and then forming the required solid by the rules given above . Remember that circles become ellipses , and squares 14 HINTS TO YOUNG ARCHITECTS . EYE PERSPECTIVE.
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