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Leybourn's dialling improv'd [electronic resource] : or, the whole art perform'd, I. Geometrically:...

Leybourn's dialling improv'd [electronic resource] : or, the whole art perform'd, I. Geometrically:...

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Leybourn's dialling improv'd [electronic resource] : or, the whole art perform'd, I. Geometrically: By Scale and Composses, by projecting the Sphere upon the Plain, whereby the Reasons of the Operations are demonstrated. II. Arithmetically: By Sines and Tangents. Also, How to describe all necessary Furniture for Sun-Dials, as the Sun's Place and Declination; with the Babylonish, Italick, and Jewish Hours, and the Point of the Compass the Sun is upon at any Time of the Day; and to make Dials to give the Time of the Day at any Place proposed, in any Part of the World. With Reflective Dialling: Shewing how to make a Dial that shall give the true Hour of the Day, where the Sun cannot shine. To which is now added, instrumental dialling: by the lines of hours, and Inclination upon the Scales, and likewise mechanick dialling, whereby any Person may, without Mathematicks, make a Dial upon any Plain; with the Manner of ordering Oyl and Colours for Painting Sun-Dials. Concluding with tables ready calculated for all latitudes and declinations, for the more expeditious drawing the hour-lines upon any plain. By Henry Wilson. The third edition, corrected and improv'd by Charles Leadbetter.

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Leybourn's dialling improv'd [electronic resource] : or, the whole art perform'd, I. Geometrically: By Scale and Composses, by projecting the Sphere upon the Plain, whereby the Reasons of the Operations are demonstrated. II. Arithmetically: By Sines and Tangents. Also, How to describe all necessary Furniture for Sun-Dials, as the Sun's Place and Declination; with the Babylonish, Italick, and Jewish Hours, and the Point of the Compass the Sun is upon at any Time of the Day; and to make Dials to give the Time of the Day at any Place proposed, in any Part of the World. With Reflective Dialling: Shewing how to make a Dial that shall give the true Hour of the Day, where the Sun cannot shine. To which is now added, instrumental dialling: by the lines of hours, and Inclination upon the Scales, and likewise mechanick dialling, whereby any Person may, without Mathematicks, make a Dial upon any Plain; with the Manner of ordering Oyl and Colours for Painting Sun-Dials. Concluding with tables ready calculated for all latitudes and declinations, for the more expeditious drawing the hour-lines upon any plain. By Henry Wilson. The third edition, corrected and improv'd by Charles Leadbetter.

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London : printed by H. Parker, for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]

Uniform title

Art of dialling.

Date

M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]

Record Identifier

74VvXpX0Wowy

MMS ID

991010896099702626

Language

English

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xi,[1],276p.,12 plates ; 12°.

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Publisher

London : printed by H. Parker, for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]

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Full title

Leybourn's dialling improv'd [electronic resource] : or, the whole art perform'd, I. Geometrically: By Scale and Composses, by projecting the Sphere upon the Plain, whereby the Reasons of the Operations are demonstrated. II. Arithmetically: By Sines and Tangents. Also, How to describe all necessary Furniture for Sun-Dials, as the Sun's Place and De...

Variant title

Art of dialling.

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General note

Based upon William Leybourn's 'The art of dialling'.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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74VvXpX0Wowy

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvXpX0Wowy

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991010896099702626