Dialling : plain, concave, convex, projective, reflective, refractive : shewing how 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 with sculptures engraven in copper : comprised in XIV distinct tractates, the contents whereof follow next after the preface to the reader / collected, methodifed, and published by William Leybourn.

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EditionThe second edition corrected, and two new tractates added.
Publication InfoLondon : Printed by J. Matthews for Awnsham and John Churchill ..., 1700.
Description[12], 156, 191 p., [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port.
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Other author/creatorLeybourn, William, 1626-1716.
Other author/creatorWells, J. R. (John R.). Sciographia.
Other author/creatorFoster, Samuel, d. 1652.
Included WorkTwysden, John, 1607-1688. Reflex dialing.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteThe author's name appears after the edition statement.
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 Foster's, written with his own hand in anno 1640 ... The ninth tractate is wholly Mr. Samuel Foster's ... The tenth tractate also, is wholly his, and was ... transcribed from a manuscript of his, which he ... entituled Gold ... The eleventh tractate ... is Mr. Foster's also"--Pref.
General noteAlso includes: Reflex dialling / by John Twysden; and, Another way of reflex dialling, being the extract of a letter / written by Mr. Im. Halton.
General noteReproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.
References Wing L1913
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 282:8)
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