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The sector on a quadrant, or, a treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants; two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular. Each of them accomodated for dyalling; for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally; and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe. Of great use to seamen and practioners in the mathematicks / Written by John Collins accountant philomath. Also an appendix touching reflected dyalling [by J. Lyon] From a glass placed at any reclination.
Collins, John, 1625-1683.Date: 1659- Books
Primitiæ gnomonicæ catoptricæ, hoc est horologiographiæ nouæ specularis in qua breuiter noua, certa, exacta, & facilis demonstratur horologiorum per reflexi luminis radium construendorum methodus. Item qua ratione prædicto reflexi luminis radio, in qualibet quantumuis irregulari muri superficie, in interioribus domorum, aliisque locis obscuris, & vmbrosis, cum horologia omnis generis, tùm omnium circulorum, qui in primo mobili considerari possunt, proiecturæ, & curuæ sectorum conorum lineæ, processus solis, & lunæ in planis indices, aliáque plurima scitu digna repræsentari possint, variè docetur / authore R.P. Athanasio Kircher Buchonio.
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.Date: 1635
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La gnomonique pratique, ou l'art de tracer les cadrans solaires. Avec la plus grande précision : par les méthodes qui y sont les plus propres, & le plus signeusement choisies en faveur principalement de ceux qui sont peu ou point versés dans les mathématiques / par Dom. François Bedos de Celles.
Bedos de Celles, François, 1709-1779.Date: 1780- Books
Traitte' d'horlogiographie, contenant plusieurs manieres de construire, sur toutes surfaces, toutes sortes de lignes horaires: et autres cercles de la sphere / Par Dom Pierre de Sainte Marie Magdeleine.
Pierre de Sainte Marie Madelaine, Dom.Date: 1674- Books
The description and use of the trianguler-quadrant : being a particular and general instrument, useful at land or sea; both for observation and operation. More universally useful, portable and convenient, than any other yet discovered. With its uses in arithmetick. Geometry, superficial and solid. Astronomy. Dyalling, three wayes. Gaging. Navigation. In a method not before used. By John Brown, philomath.
Brown, John (Philomath)Date: 1671