What is the art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective called?
perspective — The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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