A book of perspective & geometry, being the ABC, and first degree of all good art. The learning of which comprehendeth in it many notable arts, needfull and necessary for every artificer and workman. For as no perspective workman can make any work without architecture, so neither can the architecture without perspective. Which perspective is inspection or looking into by shortning of the sight, making it to shew further then in effect it is. ... And seing [sic] perspective art is nothing without geometry, they are both bound together, that the workman may be able to aide and help himselfe therewith. And forasmuch as the hand cannot effect the understanding of the mind, I shall not please thereby such as are curious, yet at least I shall help yong beginners that know little or nothing thereof. This second book of architecture made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of perspective, touching the superficies, translated out of Itallian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English, ...
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- A book of perspective & geometry, being the ABC, and first degree of all good art. The learning of which comprehendeth in it many notable arts, needfull and necessary for every artificer and workman. For as no perspective workman can make any work without architecture, so neither can the architecture without perspective. Which perspective is inspection or looking into by shortning of the sight, making it to shew further then in effect it is. ... And seing [sic] perspective art is nothing without geometry, they are both bound together, that the workman may be able to aide and help himselfe therewith. And forasmuch as the hand cannot effect the understanding of the mind, I shall not please thereby such as are curious, yet at least I shall help yong beginners that know little or nothing thereof. This second book of architecture made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of perspective, touching the superficies, translated out of Itallian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English, ...
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- Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554.
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- London :: printed by M[ary]. S[immons]. for Thomas Jenner at the south-entrance of the Royall Exchange,
- 1657.
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"A book of perspective & geometry, being the ABC, and first degree of all good art. The learning of which comprehendeth in it many notable arts, needfull and necessary for every artificer and workman. For as no perspective workman can make any work without architecture, so neither can the architecture without perspective. Which perspective is inspection or looking into by shortning of the sight, making it to shew further then in effect it is. ... And seing [sic] perspective art is nothing without geometry, they are both bound together, that the workman may be able to aide and help himselfe therewith. And forasmuch as the hand cannot effect the understanding of the mind, I shall not please thereby such as are curious, yet at least I shall help yong beginners that know little or nothing thereof. This second book of architecture made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of perspective, touching the superficies, translated out of Itallian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English, ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59260.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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A BOOK OF Perspective & Geometry, BEING The ABC, and first degree of all good ART. THE Learning of which comprehendeth in it many Notable Arts, need∣full and necessary for every Artificer and Workman. For as no Perspective Workman can make any Work without Archi∣tecture, so neither can the Architecture without Perspective. WHICH PERSPECTIVE IS Inspection or looking into by shortning of the sight, making it to shew further then in effect it is. Which Subtill and Ingenious Art, being difficult and troublesome to be set down in writing, and especially the body or modell of things which are drawn out of the ground. For it is an Art which cannot be so well expressed by figures or writings; as by under∣shewing, which is done severally, beginning with small things and so proceeding to greater, till the full Art be perfectly shewed. In which is shewed in figures and by reason, as much of Perspective Art, that if the Workman will, be may declare his conceit or purpose by Reasons and Figures. And seing Perspective Art is nothing with∣out Geometry, they are both bound together, that the Workman may be able to aide and help himselfe therewith. AND Forasmuch as the hand cannot effect the understanding of the mind, I shall not please thereby such as are curious, yet at least I shall help yong beginners that know little or nothing thereof.
This Second Book of Architecture made by SEBASTIAN SERLY, entreating of Perspective, touching the Superficies, Translated out of Itallian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English, for the benifit of our English Nation.
Infelix qui pauca sapit, spernitque doceri.
LONDON: Printed by M. S. for Thomas Jenner at the South-entrance of the Royall Exchange. 1657.