theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context "","""The Contemplation of the Object represents the matter to the mind, in the same manner as its outward appearance doth to the Eye.""",7655,"",Reading,22580,2013-08-26 02:47:41 UTC,2013-08-26 02:47:57 UTC,,"","VII. The Contemplation of the Object represents the matter to the mind, in the same manner as its outward appearance doth to the Eye.
And from hence comes Judgment where by the Artist is enabled to describe the same in lines, and delineate it, according to its apparent or visual proportions.
VIII. To draw or describe the Appearance in lines is the active part of this Art, whereby the Idea conceived in the mind (by sight and contemplation) is brought to light.
IX. A radiation is a beam of light, conveighing the likeness of the thing to the Eyes, or sight; and the knowledge thereof to the mind or understanding.
And this radiation is twofold, either external from the external light, or intelectual from its being and power.
X. Direct radiations are those which consider the direct of streight beams, which pass between the eye and the object.
And this is the first kind of perspective; and is many times (alone) called the Opticks.
(I, xxi, p. 45)",""