Dialling
Subtitle: 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
By: collected, methodifed, and published by William Leybourn
Contributors: Leybourn, William, 1626-1716; Wells, J. R.; Foster, Samuel, d. 1652; Twysden, John, 1607-1688.
Edition: The second edition corrected, and two new tractates added
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 282:8
Publisher: Printed by J. Matthews for Awnsham and John Churchill ...
Published: 1700
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Sundials -- Early works to 1800; Mathematical instruments
Notes: 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

Wing L1913

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1968. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 282:8)

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