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Record Nr.

UNISA996396304603316

Titolo

Dialling [[electronic resource]] : : plain, concave, convex, projective, reflective, refractive : shewing how to make all such dials and to adorn them with all useful furniture relating to the course of the sun : performed arithmetically, geometrically, instrumentally and mechanically : and illustrated with sculptures engraven in copper : comprised in XIV distinct tractates, the contents whereof follow next after the preface to the reader / / collected, methodifed, and published by William Leybourn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by J. Matthews for Awnsham and John Churchill ..., 1700

Edizione

[The second edition corrected,]

Descrizione fisica

[12], 156, 191 p., [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port

Altri autori (Persone)

LeybournWilliam <1626-1716.>

WellsJ. R (John R.).

FosterSamuel <d. 1652.>

TwysdenJohn <1607-1688.>

Soggetti

Sundials

Mathematical instruments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The author's name appears after the edition statement.

"Of the first tractate, the examples are all (or most of them) the same as are Mr. Wells in his Sciographia ... The second tractate was, partly a translation out of Magnon, by Mr. Thomas Gibson: and the third is partly Mr. Samuel Foster's ... The seventh tractate came to my hands in a Latine manuscript of Mr. Samuel Foster's, written with his own hand in anno 1640 ... The ninth tractate is wholly Mr. Samuel Foster's ... The tenth tractate also, is wholly his, and was ... transcribed from a manuscript of his, which he ... entituled Gold ... The eleventh tractate ... is Mr. Foster's also"--Pref.

Also includes: Reflex dialling / by John Twysden; and, Another way of reflex dialling, being the extract of a letter / written by Mr. Im. Halton.

Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062