Barrow, John [Hrsg.]: Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested: Illustrated with Fifty-six Copper-Plates. In Two Volumes (Band 1) (London, 1758)

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many in one piece, that they may not feem to be crowded ; but
to order them gracefully on the foreground efpecially, and the
reft of the figures to leffen and decline proportionably, both in
height and ftrength by degrees at their feveral diftances.

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arithmetic, architecture, geometry, and perfpeclive, &c. and
not on|y the true fnape of man's body, but of all other creatures
whatfoever, and all the fhapes and forms that are in the world.

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