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.

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Publication InfoLondon : Printed for Awnsham Churchill ..., 1682.
Description[11], 76, 89-192, 12, 181-226, 273-330 p., [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port.
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Other author/creatorLeybourn, William, 1626-1716.
Other author/creatorJ. W. (John Wells). Sciographia.
Other author/creatorGibson, Thomas, 17th/18th cent.
Other author/creatorFoster, Samuel, d. 1652.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General note"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.
General noteErrata: p. [11].
General noteReproduction of original in British Library.
References Wing L1912
References Arber's Term cat. I 460
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 215:12)
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