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

FIGURA Sexagesimaoctava.

John James translation

Elevatio geometrica vestigii præcedentis, & secunda præparatio ad figuram septuagesimamprimam.

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

In hoc schemate habes elevationem ædificii sectam in longum, quam figurâ septuagesimâ opticè projiciemus: eisdemque membris constare videbis elevationem deformatam, quibus constat elevatio geometrica. Hinc disces ad excogitandas hujusmodi machinas, eandem Architecturæ scientiam in Pictore necessariam esse, quæ ad construenda solida ædificia exigitur in Architecto.