Leybourn's dialling improv'd : or, the whole art perform'd, I. Geometrically: By Scale and Composses, by projecting the Sphere upon the Plain, whereby the Reasons of the Operations are demonstrated. II. Arithmetically: By Sines and Tangents. Also, How to describe all necessary Furniture for Sun-Dials, as the Sun's Place and Declination; with the Babylonish, Italick, and Jewish Hours, and the Point of the Compass the Sun is upon at any Time of the Day; and to make Dials to give the Time of the Day at any Place proposed, in any Part of the World. With Reflective Dialling: Shewing how to make a Dial that shall give the true Hour of the Day, where the Sun cannot shine. To which is now added, instrumental dialling: by the lines of hours, and Inclination upon the Scales, and likewise mechanick dialling, whereby any Person may, without Mathematicks, make a Dial upon any Plain; with the Manner of ordering Oyl and Colours for Painting Sun-Dials. Concluding with tables ready calculated for all latitudes and declinations, for the more expeditious drawing the hour-lines upon any plain. By Henry Wilson. The third edition, corrected and improv'd by Charles Leadbetter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.

Contributor:

Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sundials.

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page,276 pages,12 plates ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed by H. Parker, for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Based upon William Leybourn's 'The art of dialling'.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N12370.

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