Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc.

FIGURA SEXAGESIMA.

John James translation

Tabernaculum octangulare.

Illustration from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture

Hoc tabernaculo aliquoties usus fui pro expositione quadraginta horarum. Si colores scitè inducti fuerint in duos ordines telariorum, resectis omnibus quæ ad molem ipsam non pertinent, spectatoribus imponet, & solida videbitur. Oportebit autem exemplar externæ faciei eruere ex parte DF vestigii & elevationis; exemplar interioris faciei eruere ex parte EC, servando in omnibus regulas quas hucusque tradidimus.