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EDUCATION OF THE EYE. d
instruction of youth entrusted to them, I am confident would find it rather
an assistance, as it might be given either as an amusement or as a reward
of merit; and, in order to put it in the power of any master to instruct, I
shall endeavour to proceed in the simplest manner, and with as few
diagrams as the subject renders necessary.
MEASUREMENT.
To teach the eye to measure the distance between one object and another
ought to be the first proceeding; the forms of the lines which bound these
spaces, the shapes contained or excluded by such lines ought to follow,
for as the eye must have something tangible to work upon, it ought to be
simple and. evident. I should therefore commence by a series of dots or
points, first two, then three, four, and five; also the angles made by
drawing lines from each several point. A pair of compasses will enable
any one to compare their correctness with the original, for until a pupil
can accomplish pretty correctly these preliminaries, it is useless to hasten
to more complicated matters.
Fig. 1.
FORM.
All forms containing more or less portions of a triangle, square, or
circle, the eye must be taught to comprehend and imitate such objects in
their simple forms, in order to fit it for the purpose of seeing such
qualities when mixed and combined with more complicated figures.
instruction of youth entrusted to them, I am confident would find it rather
an assistance, as it might be given either as an amusement or as a reward
of merit; and, in order to put it in the power of any master to instruct, I
shall endeavour to proceed in the simplest manner, and with as few
diagrams as the subject renders necessary.
MEASUREMENT.
To teach the eye to measure the distance between one object and another
ought to be the first proceeding; the forms of the lines which bound these
spaces, the shapes contained or excluded by such lines ought to follow,
for as the eye must have something tangible to work upon, it ought to be
simple and. evident. I should therefore commence by a series of dots or
points, first two, then three, four, and five; also the angles made by
drawing lines from each several point. A pair of compasses will enable
any one to compare their correctness with the original, for until a pupil
can accomplish pretty correctly these preliminaries, it is useless to hasten
to more complicated matters.
Fig. 1.
FORM.
All forms containing more or less portions of a triangle, square, or
circle, the eye must be taught to comprehend and imitate such objects in
their simple forms, in order to fit it for the purpose of seeing such
qualities when mixed and combined with more complicated figures.