Sciographia, or, The art of shadovves
Subtitle: plainly demonstrating, out of the sphere, how to project both great and small circles upon any plane whatsoever : with a new conceit of reflecting the sunne beames upon a diall, contrived on a plane, which the direct beames can never shine upon : together with the manner of cutting the five regular Platonicall bodies, and two other, the one of 12, the other of 30 rhombes, never discovered heretofore, also the finding of their declinations and reclinations and adorning them with variety of dials : all performed by the doctrine of triangles, and for ease and delight sake by helpe of ... logarithmes
By: by I.W. ...
Contributors: Harper, Thomas, d. 1656, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Harper ...
Published: 1635
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Sundials -- Early works to 1800.; Logarithms -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Sciographia; Art of shadovves; Art of shadowes
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 25234
"A few copies have bd. w. them unsold sheets of H. Brigg's and A. Vlacq's logarithmic tables pub'd at Gouda by P. Rammaseyn, 1626"--STC.
Signatures: [par.]⁸ A⁸ 2a⁶ B-2E⁸ 2F².
LC copy has 2 sets of tables, one of logarithms, the other of sines and tangents, bound at end.