 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1923 - 526 pages
...intromitted, falling upon a paper, which is accommodated to receive them ; and so he traceth them with his pen in their natural appearance, turning his little tent...otherwise, to make landscapes by it were illiberal, though surely no painter can do them so precisely.' J THE PORTABLE CAMERA OBSCURA A convex lens is mounted... | |
 | Simon Henry Gage - 1925 - 568 pages
...them; and so he traceth them with his pen in their natural appearance, turning his little tent around by degrees till he hath designed the whole aspect...made of it for chorography; for otherwise to make landskips by it were illiberal, though surely no painter could do them so precisely." 5 741c. Henry... | |
 | A. C. Crombie - 1990 - 534 pages
...intromitted, falling upon a paper, which is accommodated to receive them, and so he traceth them with his pen in their natural appearance, turning his little tent...till he hath designed the whole aspect of the field' (GW xviii, 42). l4 Just after this Jean Leurechon published in his popular Recreation mathematique... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 296 pages
...intromittcd falling upon a paper, which is accommodated to receiv'e them. And so he traceth them with his Pen in their natural appearance, turning his little Tent...degrees till he hath designed the whole aspect of the field.i 2 ). Speclding (ecl.), Letters and Life (7 vols., London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts,... | |
 | 1907 - 508 pages
...much prom1se ; one about Kepler's camera obscura, in a letter to Bacon dated 1620, ending thus : — This I have described to your Lordship because I think...otherwise, to make landscapes by it were illiberal, though surely no painter can do them so precisely. But no apology is needed for quoting the following in full,... | |
 | 1915 - 598 pages
...Then follows a description of Kepler'scamera obscura. Wotton concludes his account with : — " This 1 have described to your Lordship, because I think there...made of it for Chorography : for otherwise, to make Landskijs by it were illiberal ; though surely no Painter can do them soprecisely." — See ' Reliquiae... | |
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... the concave taken out at the other end, which extendeth to about the middle of this erected tent, through which the visible radiations of all the objects without are intromitted, falling upon a paper, which is accommodated to receive them ; and so... 
