Multum in parvo: or, tables exactly calculated for the latitude of London [electronic resource] : Te...
Multum in parvo: or, tables exactly calculated for the latitude of London [electronic resource] : 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. .
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London : printed for, and sold by Richard Mount, and Company, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill, 1706.
Date
1706.
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viii,136p.,plates ; 8°.
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London : printed for, and sold by Richard Mount, and Company, in Postern-Row, on Tower-Hill, 1706.
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England
Date Published
1706.
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Multum in parvo: or, tables exactly calculated for the latitude of London [electronic resource] : 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;...
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Braces in imprint.
Later editions were published with the title: 'The art of shadows: or universal = dialling'.
Pp 57-64 misnumbered 60-67.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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74VvApoG8W4b
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