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Dialing, plain, concave, convex, projective, reflective, refractive : shewing hovv 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 by sculptures, engraven in copper : comprised in XI distinct tractates, the contents whereof follow next after the preface to the reader / collected, methodised and published by William Leybourn.

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London : Printed for Awnsham Churchill ..., 1682.

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Descript	[11], 76, 89-192, 12, 181-226, 273-330 p., [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port.
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 Fosters, written with his own hand in anno 1640 ... The ninth tractate is wholly Mr. Samuel Fosters ... The tenth tractate also, is wholly his, and was ... transcribed from a manuscript of his, which he ... entituled Gold ... The eleventh tractate ... is Mr. Fosters also"--Pref.
	Errata: p. [11].
	Reproduction of original in British Library.

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Series	Early English books online.
Subject	Sundials -- Early works to 1800.
	Mathematical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author	Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
	J. W. (John Wells). Sciographia.
	Gibson, Thomas, active 17th century-18th century.
	Foster, Samuel, -1652.

Descript	[11], 76, 89-192, 12, 181-226, 273-330 p., [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port.
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 Fosters, written with his own hand in anno 1640 ... The ninth tractate is wholly Mr. Samuel Fosters ... The tenth tractate also, is wholly his, and was ... transcribed from a manuscript of his, which he ... entituled Gold ... The eleventh tractate ... is Mr. Fosters also"--Pref.
	Errata: p. [11].
	Reproduction of original in British Library.

Series	Early English books online.
Subject	Sundials -- Early works to 1800.
	Mathematical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author	Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
	J. W. (John Wells). Sciographia.
	Gibson, Thomas, active 17th century-18th century.
	Foster, Samuel, -1652.

Subject	Sundials -- Early works to 1800.
	Mathematical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Descript	[11], 76, 89-192, 12, 181-226, 273-330 p., [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port.
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 Fosters, written with his own hand in anno 1640 ... The ninth tractate is wholly Mr. Samuel Fosters ... The tenth tractate also, is wholly his, and was ... transcribed from a manuscript of his, which he ... entituled Gold ... The eleventh tractate ... is Mr. Fosters also"--Pref.
	Errata: p. [11].
	Reproduction of original in British Library.
Alt author	Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
	J. W. (John Wells). Sciographia.
	Gibson, Thomas, active 17th century-18th century.
	Foster, Samuel, -1652.

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