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100 1 Colton, H.,|cDr.
245 14 The artist's vade mecum: or The most useful arts and
sciences improv'd and made easie. :|bContaining 1. The
curious art of dialing, in drawing and placing all sorts
of sun-dials by a true or more exact rule than hitherto
found out. 2. Geometry applied to the most profitable arts
of surveying, measuring timber, or any solid bodies;
gauging casks, brewers tuns, wine-vessels, &c. 3. Finding
the length and circumference answering any arch, in
degrees and decimal parts. 4. The area or segments of a
circle, whose whole area is unity, to the ten thousandth
of the diameter; with many other useful tables, ready
stated. 5. A compleat body of astronomy, or a view of the
caelestial globe; places of the sun, moon, and fixed stars,
the names of the most noted stars, in what signs they are
posited; their longitude and latitude, &c. The doctrine of
the primum mobile, and the account of time rectified and
freed from error; compared with the Julian and Gregorian
calenders. : To which is added, A compleat body of
geography; describing all the empires, kingdoms, and
states in the known parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and
America. The like never before made publick; illustrated
with 14 copper-plates. /|cBy Dr. Colton.
246 30 Most useful arts and sciences improv'd and made easie
260 London: :|bPrinted for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on
London-bridge,|c1698.
300 [29], 510, [16] p., 14 leaves of plates :|bill.
500 Publisher's catalog: p. [13-16] at end.
500 Imperfect: leaf P⁸ appears lacking; plates 12-14 lacking.
500 Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University
Library.
650 0 Geometry|vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 Astronomy|vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 Surveying|vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 Geography|vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 Sundials|vEarly works to 1800.
830 0 Early English books online.
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