Dialing: plain, concave, convex, projective, reflective, refractive
Shewing, hovv 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 by sculptures, engraven in copper. Comprised in XI distinct tractates, the contents whereof follow next after the preface to the reader. Collected, methodised and published; by William Leybourn
by William Leybourn
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Dialing: plain, concave, convex, projective, reflective, refractive: Shewing, hovv 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 by sculptures, engraven in copper. Comprised in XI distinct tractates, the contents whereof follow next after the preface to the reader. Collected, methodised and published; by William Leybourn
1682, printed for Awnsham Churchill at the Black Swan, at the lower end of Paternoster Row, near Amen Corner
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"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 Fosters, written with his own hand in anno 1640 ... The ninth tractate is wholly Mr. Samuel Fosters ... The tenth tractate also, is wholly his, and was ... transcribed from a manuscript of his, which he ... entituled Gold ... The eleventh tractate ... is Mr. Fosters also". cf. "To the reader."
Frontispiece portrait (pi1v) of William Leybourn signed R: White delin: et sculp.
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700, L1912
English short title catalogue, R18006
Gift; Johnson family; 1914.
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