Multum in parvo: or, tables exactly calculated for the latitude of London : Teaching any person, though of an ordinary capacity and unlearned in the mathematicks, to draw a true sun-dial on any vertical or upright plane, however Situated in respect of Declination: Only with the help of a pair of Compasses and a Line of Chords; and without any Arithmetical Calculation. The like never before Published. To which is added a table; shewing the distance o each hour-line from the meridian: Upon all Horizontal Dials, Calculated to every Degree of Latitude. Likewise, Spot, Concave, Convex, Instrumental Reflex, Cylindrical Dialing. Also, How to Adorn the said Dials, with all Useful Furniture. Relating to the Course of the Sun. By John Good.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Good, John, fl. 1706-1733.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sundials--Early works to 1800.

Sundials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,136p.,plates )

Other Title:

Multum in parvo

Place of Publication:

London : printed for, and sold by Richard Mount, and Company, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill, 1706.

Notes:

Pp 57-64 misnumbered 60-67.

Later editions were published with the title: 'The art of shadows: or universal = dialling'.

Braces in imprint.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T90165.

OCLC:

642724715