Mechanick dialling: or, the new art of shadows : freed from the many obscurities, superfluities and errors of former writers upon this Subject. The whole laid down after so plain a Method that any Person (tho' a Stranger to the Art) With a Pair of Compasses and Common Rules only, May make a Dial upon any Plane for any Place in the World, as well as those who have attained to the greatest Knowledge and Perfection in the Mathematicks. Illustrated with many copper plates, and examples of dials for London, Exeter, Bristol, Worcester, Oxford, Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, Chester, Liverpool, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham, Edinburgh, Dublin, &c. To which are added, 1. A choice collection of mottos in Latin and English. 2. A New and Correct Alphabetical table of the mos eminent cities, towns, in the whole World; shewing the elevation of the Pole, and the Difference of their Meridian from London. 3. The best and most approved methods of painting sun dials. A Work not only useful for Artificers, but very entertaining for Gentlemen, and those Students at the Universities, that would understand Dialling, without the Trouble of going through a Course of Mathematics. By Charles Leadbetter, Teacher of the Mathematics in London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sundials--Early works to 1800.

Sundials.

Physical Description:

xvi,22,17-193 pages, 1 unnumbered page,plates : illustrations ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Edward Wicksteed at the Black Swan in Newgate-Street, 1737.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Between pp. 17-18 three leaves, signed *B1-*[B]3, have been inserted; text is continuous.

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 British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T133701.

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