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Horlogiographia optica. [electronic resource] : Dialling universall and particular: speculative and...

Horlogiographia optica. [electronic resource] : Dialling universall and particular: speculative and...

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Horlogiographia optica. [electronic resource] : Dialling universall and particular: speculative and practicall. In a threefold præcognita, viz. geometricall, philosophicall, and astronomicall: and a threefold practise, viz. arithmeticall, geometricall, and instrumentall. With diverse propositions of the use and benefit of shadows, serving to prick down the signes, declination, and azimuths, on sun-dials, and diverse other benefits. Illustrated by diverse opticall conceits, taken out of Augilonius, Kercherius, Clavius, and others. Lastly, topothesia, or, a feigned description of the court of art. Full of benefit for the making of dials, use of the globes, difference of meridians, and most propositions of astronomie. Together with many usefull instruments and dials in brasse, made by Walter Hayes, at the Crosse Daggers in More Fields. / Written by Silvanus Morgan.

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Horlogiographia optica. [electronic resource] : Dialling universall and particular: speculative and practicall. In a threefold præcognita, viz. geometricall, philosophicall, and astronomicall: and a threefold practise, viz. arithmeticall, geometricall, and instrumentall. With diverse propositions of the use and benefit of shadows, serving to prick down the signes, declination, and azimuths, on sun-dials, and diverse other benefits. Illustrated by diverse opticall conceits, taken out of Augilonius, Kercherius, Clavius, and others. Lastly, topothesia, or, a feigned description of the court of art. Full of benefit for the making of dials, use of the globes, difference of meridians, and most propositions of astronomie. Together with many usefull instruments and dials in brasse, made by Walter Hayes, at the Crosse Daggers in More Fields. / Written by Silvanus Morgan.

Publisher

London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Andrew Kemb, and Robert Boydell, and are to be sold at St. Margarets Hill in Southwark, and at the Bulwark neer the Tower, 1652.

Date

1652.

Record Identifier

74VvMEwGpZBO

MMS ID

991007206389702626

Language

English

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Physical content

[16], 144 p. : ill. (woodcuts, metal cuts)

Publication information

Publisher

London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Andrew Kemb, and Robert Boydell, and are to be sold at St. Margarets Hill in Southwark, and at the Bulwark neer the Tower, 1652.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1652.

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Horlogiographia optica. [electronic resource] : Dialling universall and particular: speculative and practicall. In a threefold præcognita, viz. geometricall, philosophicall, and astronomicall: and a threefold practise, viz. arithmeticall, geometricall, and instrumentall. With diverse propositions of the use and benefit of shadows, serving to prick...

Notes

General note

With an additional title page, engraved and initialed by John Goddard.

The first leaf contains verses "On the frontispiece".

Annotation on Thomason copy: The "2" in the imprint date is crossed out and date altered to 1652; "Febr. 4th".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Citation / References Note

Wing (2nd ed.) M2741.

Thomason E.652[16].

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/117.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 100:E652[16])

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74VvMEwGpZBO

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvMEwGpZBO

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MMS ID

991007206389702626