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| A35744 | Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676. | Mr. De Sargues Universal way of dyaling, or, Plain and easie directions for placing the axeltree and marking the hours in sun-dyals, after the French, Italian, Babylonian, and Jewish manner together with the manner of drawing the lines of the signs, of finding out the height of the sun above the horizon, and the east-rising of the same, the elevation of the pole, and the position of the meridian ... / [edited] by Daniel King, Gent. | 1659 | 26746 | 7445 | nan | ./cache/A35744.xml | ./txt/A35744.txt |
| A38104 | Edwards, Thomas, mathematician. | Dialling made easy, or, Tables calculated for the latitude of Oxford (but will serve without sensible difference for most parts of England) by the help of which, and a line of chords, the hour-lines may quickly and exactly be described upon most sorts of useful dials : with some brief directions for making two sorts of spot dials / by T.E. | 1692 | 14964 | 10366 | nan | ./cache/A38104.xml | ./txt/A38104.txt |
| A40031 | Foster, Samuel, d. 1652. | Elliptical or azimuthal horologiography comprehending severall wayes of describing dials upon all kindes of superficies, either plain or curved, and unto upright stiles in whatsoever position they shall be placed / invented and demonstrated by Samuel Foster ... | 1654 | 50905 | 17200 | nan | ./cache/A40031.xml | ./txt/A40031.txt |
| A89305 | Goddard, John, fl. 1645-1671, engraver. | Horlogiographia optica. 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. | 1652 | 31380 | 11084 | nan | ./cache/A89305.xml | ./txt/A89305.txt |
| A51553 | Hood, Thomas, fl. 1582-1598. | A tutor to astronomie and geographie, or, An easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial and terrestrial in six books : the first teaching the rudiments of astronomy and geography, the 2. shewing by the globes the solution of astronomical & geographical probl., the 3. shewing by the globes the solution of problems in navigation, the 4. shewing by the globes the solution of astrological problemes, the 5. shewing by the globes the solution of gnomonical problemes, the 6. shewing by the globes the solution of of [sic] spherical triangles : more fully and amply then hath ever been set forth either by Gemma Frisius, Metius, Hues, Wright, Blaew, or any others that have taught the use of the globes : and that so plainly and methodically that the meanest capacity may at first reading apprehend it, and with a little practise grow expert in these divine sciences / by Joseph Moxon ; whereunto is added Antient poetical stories of the stars, shewing reasons why the several shapes and forms are pictured on the coelestial globe, collected from Dr. Hood ; as also a Discourse of the antiquity, progress and augmentation of astronomie. | 1659 | 97891 | 32202 | nan | ./cache/A51553.xml | ./txt/A51553.txt |
| A51544 | Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691. | Mechanick dyalling teaching any man, though of an ordinary capacity and unlearned in the mathematicks, to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane, however scituated : only with the help of a straight ruler and a pair of compasses, and without any arithmetical calculation / by Joseph Moxon ... | 1668 | 15101 | 4716 | nan | ./cache/A51544.xml | ./txt/A51544.txt |
| A48262 | Oughtred, William, 1575-1660. aut | Mathematicall recreations. Or, A collection of many problemes, extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fire-works, &c. Not vulgarly manifest till now. Written first in Greeke and Latin, lately compi''ld in French, by Henry Van Etten, and now in English, with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians whereunto is added the description and use of the generall horologicall ring: and the double horizontall diall. Invented and written by William Oughtred. | 1653 | 73426 | 21147 | nan | ./cache/A48262.xml | ./txt/A48262.txt |
| A60467 | Smith, John, b. 1648? | The art of painting wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting, according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours, not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work ... / composed by John Smith, philomath. | 1676 | 12029 | 3463 | nan | ./cache/A60467.xml | ./txt/A60467.txt |
| B06166 | Tompion, Thomas, 1639-1713. | A table of the equation of days, shewing how much a good pendulum watch ought to be faster or slower than a true sun-dial, every day of the year. | 1683 | 1812 | 855 | nan | ./cache/B06166.xml | ./txt/B06166.txt |
| A96930 | Worgan, John, surveyor. | The use of the universal ring-dial. | 1696 | 1224 | 168 | nan | ./cache/A96930.xml | ./txt/A96930.txt |
| A67225 | Wynn, Henry, d. 1709. | The description and uses of the general horological-ring: or universal ring-dyal Being the invention of the late reverend Mr. W. Oughtred, as it is usually made of a portable pocket size. With a large and correct table of the latitudes of the principal places in every shire throughout England and Wales, &c. And several ways to find a meridian-line for the setting a horizontal dyal. By Henry Wynne, maker of mathematical instruments near the Sugar-loaf in Chancery-lane. | 1682 | 6406 | 1867 | nan | ./cache/A67225.xml | ./txt/A67225.txt |