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Nothing ought to be more familiar to a Painter than Perspective; for it is the only thing that can make the Judgment correct, and will help the Fancy to invent with ten times the ease that it could do without it.

— Brook Taylor New Principles of Linear Perspective (1715)

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I have endeavour'd to make every thing so plain, that a very little Skill in Geometry may be sufficient to enable one to read this Book by himself.

New Principles of Linear Perspective (1715)

The Book it self is so short, that I need not detain the Reader any longer in the Preface...

New Principles of Linear Perspective (1715)

[T]he Theory I have endeavour'd to explain in the Appendix, from Sir Isaac Newton, may be of very great use to Learners.

New Principles of Linear Perspective (1715)

The Art Perspective is necessary to all Arts, where there is any occasion for Designing... but it is more particularly necessary to the Art Painting...

New Principles of Linear Perspective (1715)

The true and best way of learning any Art, is not to see a great many Examples done by another Person, but to possess ones seIf first of the Principles of it, and then to make them familiar, by exercising ones self in the Practice. For it is Practice alone, that makes a Man perfect in any thing.

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