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Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728
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Mechanick dialling; or, the new art of shadows, freed from the many obscurities, superfluities and errors of former writers upon this Subject. The Whole laid down after so plain a Method that any Person (though a Stranger to the Art) With a Pair of Compasses and Common Ruler only, May make a Dial upon any Plane for any Place in the World, as well as those who have attained to the greatest Knowledge, and Perfection in the Mathematics. Illustrated with many copper plates, and Examples of Dials for London, Exeter, Bristol, Worcester, Oxford, Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, Chester, Liverpool, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham, Edinburgh, Dublin, &c. To which are Added, I. A Collection of above 300 Mottos in Latin and English. 2. A new and correct Alphabetical Table of the most eminent Cities and Towns in the World; shewing the Elevation of the Pole, and the Difference of their Meridians from London. 3. The best and most approved Methods of Painting Sun Dials. A Work not only useful for Artificers, but very entertaining for Gentlemen and those Students at the Universities, that would understand Dialling, without the Fatigue of going through a Course of Mathematics. A new edition. not only very much improved by the Addition of the New Star-Dial, &c. but is the only Book upon the Subject that has been adapted to the New Stile. By Mr. Charles Leadbetter.
Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The royal gauger; or, Gauging made perfectly easy, as it it actually practised by the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise. In two parts. Part I. Containing the practical methods of finding the areas and contents of such superficies and solids, as are the foundation of gauging. Also the established rules for finding the contents of all sorts of cisterns, coppers, backs, coolers, tuns, stills and casks, when full, or part empty: the examples being performed here both by the pen and sliding rule: and this not in ale, beer, wine, and malt only; but in made-wines, soap, starch, candles, hops, coffee, tea, chocolate, all sorts of leather, paper, &c. which have been very considerable branches of the revenue, as well as of every excise officer's duty for above forty years past, though yet never treated of by any author. With the officer's duty in the distillery, and glass-house: freed from the obscurities and errors of other writers. Part II. Shewing the necessary steps to be taken for obtaining employment in the excise, with authentic forms of such certificates, petitions, oaths, &c. as are requisite for that purpose. Together with such directions for the officer's conduct as are necessary for ascertaining and securing the duties, to which the respective traders are subject; and very advantageous to those traders, who are desirous to ascertain the amount of their respective duties, without entirely depending upon the skill and integrity of the King's officer. To which is added, cask-gauging, &c. as practised in the port of London. The whole illustrated with many new copper-plates adapted to the subject. The fourth edition, very much enlarged and improved, for the benefit of young officers, from the valuable and authentic manuscripts of a collector; and of Mr. John Downer and Mr. Joseph Bosley, general surveyors of the London distillery. lately deceased, By Charles Leadbetter. Many years a gauger in the Royal Revenue of Excise.
Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.Date: 1755- Books
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Uranoscopia: or, the contemplation of the heavens. Being a demonstration of the equation of time. With the method of observing the solar ingresses into any point of the ecliptic; ... By Charles Leadbetter, ...
Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.Date: 1735- Books
Astronomy; or, the true system of the planets demonstrated. Wherein are shewn by instrument, their anomalies, heliocentrick and geocentrick places both in longitude and latitude ... : likewise the places of the heavenly bodies and motion of the earth ... to which is prefix'd, An alphabetical catalogue of as many terms in astronomy as are most useful ... / by Charles Leadbetter.
Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.Date: 1727- Books
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The young mathematician's companion, being a compleat tutor to the mathematicks; Whereby the Young Beginner may be early Instructed; those who have lost the Opportunity of learning in their Youth may with very little Pains, and in a short Time become Proficients in this delightful and instructive Science, and such whose Business it is to teach, may receive much Useful Assistance. Containing, I. Vulgar and Decimal Arithmetic, Extraction of Roots by Natural Numbers, and by Logarithms. II. Description and Use of the Sector, with the most useful Definitions, Theorems, and Problems in Geometry. III. Plain and Spherical Trigonometry, Astronomy, Dyalling, and Surveying of Land. IV. Curious Discourses, calculated to render a Practical Knowledge of the Mathematicks more easy and familiar. The Whole Interspersed with delightful and Useful Questions, and adorned with proper Schemes in order to excite the Curiosity, and form the Minds of Youth. By Charles Leadbetter, Teacher of the Mathematicks.
Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.Date: [1748]