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.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.

J. W. (John Wells).

Gibson, Thomas, active 17th century-18th century.

Foster, Samuel, -1652.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 215:12.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sundials--Early works to 1800.

Sundials.

Mathematical instruments--Early works to 1800.

Mathematical instruments.

Physical Description:

11 unnumbered pages, 76, 89-192, 12, 181-226, 273-330 pages, 22 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portrait

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Awnsham Churchill ..., 1682.

Notes:

"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"--Pref.

Errata: p. [11].

Reproduction of original in British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1966. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 215:12)

Cited in:

Wing L1912

Arber's Term cat. I 460

Related Work:

J. W. (John Wells). Sciographia.

OCLC:

12348963