The Elements of Perspective: Intended to be read in connection with the first three books of Euclid
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The Elements of Perspective - John Ruskin
John Ruskin
The Elements of Perspective
Intended to be read in connection with the first three books of Euclid
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
[p v ] CONTENTS.
[p ix ] PREFACE.
[p 1 ] THE ELEMENTS OF PERSPECTIVE.
I. The Sight-Point.—
II. The Sight-Line.—
III. The Station-Line.—
IV. The Station-Point.—
[p 10 ] PROBLEM I.
[p 13 ] PROBLEM II.
TO DRAW A RIGHT LINE BETWEEN TWO GIVEN POINTS .
[p 14 ] COROLLARY I.
[p 15 ] COROLLARY II.
[p 16 ] COROLLARY III.
[p 17 ] PROBLEM III.
TO FIND THE VANISHING-POINT OF A GIVEN HORIZONTAL LINE .
[p 18 ] COROLLARY I.
COROLLARY II.
[p 21 ] COROLLARY III.
[p 22 ] COROLLARY IV.
[p 23 ] PROBLEM IV.
TO FIND THE DIVIDING-POINTS OF A GIVEN HORIZONTAL LINE .
[p 24 ] PROBLEM V.
TO DRAW A HORIZONTAL LINE, GIVEN IN POSITION AND MAGNITUDE, BY MEANS OF ITS SIGHT-MAGNITUDE AND DIVIDING-POINTS .
[p 25 ] COROLLARY I.
[p 26 ] COROLLARY II.
[p 27 ] PROBLEM VI.
TO DRAW ANY TRIANGLE, GIVEN IN POSITION AND MAGNITUDE, IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE .
[p 29 ] PROBLEM VII.
TO DRAW ANY RECTILINEAR QUADRILATERAL FIGURE, GIVEN IN POSITION AND MAGNITUDE, IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE .
COROLLARY.
[p 31 ] PROBLEM VIII.
TO DRAW A SQUARE, GIVEN IN POSITION AND MAGNITUDE, IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE .
COROLLARY I.
[p 33 ] COROLLARY II.
COROLLARY III.
[p 34 ] PROBLEM IX.
TO DRAW A SQUARE PILLAR, GIVEN IN POSITION AND MAGNITUDE, ITS BASE AND TOP BEING IN HORIZONTAL PLANES .
[p 35 ] COROLLARY.
[p 36 ] PROBLEM X.
TO DRAW A PYRAMID, GIVEN IN POSITION AND MAGNITUDE, ON A SQUARE BASE IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE .
[p 38 ] PROBLEM XI.
TO DRAW ANY CURVE IN A HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL PLANE .
COROLLARY.
[p 42 ] PROBLEM XII.
TO DIVIDE A CIRCLE DRAWN IN PERSPECTIVE INTO ANY GIVEN NUMBER OF EQUAL PARTS .
COROLLARY.
[p 45 ] PROBLEM XIII.
TO DRAW A SQUARE, GIVEN IN MAGNITUDE, WITHIN A LARGER SQUARE GIVEN IN POSITION AND MAGNITUDE; THE SIDES OF THE TWO SQUARES BEING PARALLEL .
[p 46 ] COROLLARY.
[p 47 ] PROBLEM XIV.
TO DRAW A TRUNCATED CIRCULAR CONE, GIVEN IN POSITION AND MAGNITUDE, THE TRUNCATIONS BEING IN HORIZONTAL PLANES, AND THE AXIS OF THE CONE VERTICAL .
COROLLARY I.
COROLLARY II.
COROLLARY III.
[p 50 ] PROBLEM XV.
TO DRAW AN INCLINED LINE, GIVEN IN POSITION AND MAGNITUDE .
[p 53 ] PROBLEM XVI.
TO FIND THE VANISHING-POINT OF A GIVEN INCLINED LINE .
[p 55 ] PROBLEM XVII.
TO FIND THE DIVIDING-POINTS OF A GIVEN INCLINED LINE .
[p 57 ] PROBLEM XVIII.
[p 59 ] PROBLEM XIX.
TO FIND THE VANISHING-POINT OF STEEPEST LINES IN AN INCLINED PLANE WHOSE SIGHT-LINE IS GIVEN .
[p 61 ] PROBLEM XX.
TO FIND THE VANISHING-POINT OF LINES PERPENDICULAR TO THE SURFACE OF A GIVEN INCLINED PLANE .
[p 67 ] APPENDIX.
[p 69 ] I.
PRACTICE AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRECEDING PROBLEMS .
Problem I.
[p 75 ] PROBLEM IX.
[p 79 ] PROBLEM X.
[p 85 ] PROBLEM XI.
[p 87 ] PROBLEM XIV.
[p 94 ] PROBLEM XVI.
[p 97 ] PROBLEM XVIII.
[p 99 ] II.
DEMONSTRATIONS WHICH COULD NOT CONVENIENTLY BE INCLUDED IN THE TEXT .
I.
THE SECOND COROLLARY, PROBLEM II .
[p 101 ] II.
THE THIRD COROLLARY, PROBLEM III .
[p 102 ] III.
ANALYSIS OF PROBLEM XV .
[pv]
CONTENTS.
Table of Contents
[p ix]
PREFACE.
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For some time back I have felt the want, among Students of Drawing, of a written code of accurate Perspective Law; the modes of construction in common use being various, and, for some problems, insufficient. It would have been desirable to draw up such a code in popular language, so as to do away with the most repulsive difficulties of the subject; but finding this popularization would be impossible, without elaborate figures and long explanations, such as I had no leisure to prepare, I have arranged the necessary rules in a short mathematical form, which any schoolboy may read through in a few days, after he has mastered the first three and the sixth books of Euclid.
Some awkward compromises have been admitted between the first-attempted popular explanation, and the severer