Sciographia, or, The art of shadovves : 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 I.W. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

J. W. (John Wells)

Contributor:

Harper, Thomas, -1656, printer.

Hebb, Andrew, -1648, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sundials--Early works to 1800.

Sundials.

Logarithms--Early works to 1800.

Logarithms.

Physical Description:

44 unnumbered pages, 427 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Sciographia

Art of shadovves

Sciographia, or, The art of shadowes

Art of shadowes

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Thomas Harper and are to be sold [by Andrew Hebb] in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Bell, 1635.

Notes:

Bookseller's name from ESTC.

Signatures: [par.]⁸ A⁸ 2a⁸(-2a7,8) B-D⁸ E⁴ F-2E⁸ 2F².

Leaves 2F1 and 2F2 printed as 2a7 and 2a8 respectively.

Woodcuts: illustrations, initials and head-pieces.

Slip-cancel diagrams on leaves C6r, R2r and R5v.

Printed marginalia.

Errata included in table of contents.

Variant: issued with unsold sheets of logarithmic tables by H. Briggs and A. Vlacq, published at Gouda by P. Rammaseyn, 1626. Cf. ESTC.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640: 979:10 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is variant issued with unsold sheets of logarithmic tables ([260] p., signed A⁸(-A1) B-K⁸ L⁴ M1, ²A-E⁸ F⁶).

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: plates before leaves I7 and L1 wanting with diagrams supplied in ms. on two leaves inserted in their place; front and back free endpapers detached; title page cropped at all margins (with loss of "S" in "Sciography") and mounted on a blank leaf; leaf C2 closely cropped at bottom margin with loss of signature and last line of text (text supplied in ms. in margin); hole in leaf F2 repaired with missing letters supplied in ms.; tear at bottom corner of leaf Y4 repaired without loss of text.

Penn Libraries copy has inked-over autograph of a former owner on verso of title leaf; a few ms. marks, notes and corrections to text in ink.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 25234

ESTC S119762

OCLC:

60421131