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Excerpt from An Introduction to Linear Drawing: Translated From the French
Most of our faculties, when exercised, may attain to a surprising degree of perfection. A precision may be acquired by the eye and hand, almost equal to that of ordinary instruments. With this view, the society for the improvement of elementary instruction in France, directed some of their most distinguished members to procure a worlr on the art of drawing, which should be applied to the system of mutual instruction, there the national system. The following treatise is, in a great measure, a translation of that approved by them. It is not intended for a treatise on the art in all its numer ous branches, but merely the linear, and, of course, the fundamental and most useful part of it.
The geometrical figures are arranged according to the difficulty of their execution, rather than in the order of theorems.
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