Instrumenta meteorognosiae inservientia ...
Subtitle: quorum constructio in plurimis correcta et accuratior adornanda defectus corrigibiles et incorrigibiles situs commodus atque usus succincte traduntur : accedunt hyetostathmica duo et exatmoscipium nouiter inuenta nec non meditationes de mensura quadam universali eruditis propria quorum examini atque judicio
By: haec omnia submittit Joh. Georgius Leutmannus P.D.
Publisher: Sumptibus B. Godofr. Zimmermanni Vid.
Published: 1725
Place of publication: Wittenbergae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Meteorological instruments; Early works to 1800
Notes: Title printed in red and black.

Signatures: (6 ll.) )(⁸(-)(8) A-L⁸.

The quiring of the first 6 leaves of the Houghton Library copy is uncertain. Pages [4], [6], and [8] are signed (unusually, being on the verso) ')(3', ')(4', ')(5' respectively. The frontispiece may be leaf )(8, wrapped backwards around the preliminary leaves so that it precedes them.

The plates consist of a mezzotint allegorical frontispiece and 16 engraved depictions of instruments, numbered I-IV, V.A.-F., VI.A.-B., VII-XI.

"Appendix proponens Meditationes de mensura universali certae atque determinatae magnitudinis, quae ubivis locorum haberi possit, quas cum eruditis communicat, eorumque censurae subjicit Joh. Georg. Leutmann P.D.": p. [151]-167.

"Invitatio ad observationes meteorologicas communi consilio instituendas a Jacobo Jurin": p. 168-173.

Includes bibliographical references.

Poggendorff, J.C. Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch der exakten Naturwissenschaften, I, 1439.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. Thermoscopia; title: II. Baroscopia; title: III. Hygroscopium; title: IV. Anemometrum; title: V. Plagoscopium; title: VI. Hyetometrum.