69 results filtered with: Sundials
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The double-headed eagle, representing the Holy Roman Empire, stands on a bobbin holding in its wings the outer sphere of the universe showing the elements of time from which the world is made: months, days, planets, signs of the zodiac, etc. Engraving by P. Miotte.
Date: [1646]Reference: 46390i
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Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials. On plain and easy principles. With several miscellaneous articles, and new tables. I, for expeditiously computing the time of any new or full moon within ... 6,000 years before and after the 18th century ... II. For graduating and examining the usual lines ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author / by James Ferguson.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: 1778- Pictures
Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 45220i- Books
Gvilielmi Blaev Institvtio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. Dvabvs partibvs adornata, vna, secundum hypothesin Ptolemæi, per terram quiescentem / Altera, juxta mentem N. Copernici, per terram mobilem. Latinè reddita à M. Hortensio.
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638.Date: 1668- Books
Praxis horologiorum expeditissima per quam varia horologiorum genera, praesertim verticalia per nouas tabulas facillimè describuntur / Io. Baptista Trotta Populensi Societatis Iesu auctore.
Trotta, Giovanni Battista, 1585-1656.Date: 1631- Books
Fabrica de gl'horologi solari / Nella quale si trattano non solo instrumenti per dissegnare horologi sopra ogni superficie di muro, ma anco si danno regole per fabricare altri horologi portatili, cosi per seruitio del giorno, come della notte. Di don Valentino Pini.
Pini, Valentino, -1607.Date: 1598
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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- Pictures
Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 45221i- Archives and manuscripts
Browne, Antony
Browne, AntonyDate: c. 1655Reference: MS.1374
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The young gentleman's astronomy, chronology, and dialling, : containing such elements of the said arts or sciences, as are most useful and easy to be known. / by Edward Wells.
Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.Date: 1718- Pictures
Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 45222i
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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... / [William Leybourn].
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1700
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The young gentleman's astronomy, chronology, and dialling ... / [Edward Wells].
Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.Date: [1712]- Books
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Astronomica specimina ad observationes planetarum faciendas, & horologiorum constructionem / authore Gilberto Clark.
Clerke, Gilbert, 1626-1697?Date: 1682- Books
Io. Baptistae Benedicti Patritii Veneti Philosophi, De gnomonum umbrarumque solarium usu liber ... Nunc primùm publicæ utilitati, studiosorumq̀. commoditati in lucem aeditus / [Giovanni Battista Benedetti].
Benedetti, Giovanni Battista, 1530-1590.Date: MDLXXIIII. [1574]
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Tavole gnomoniche per delineare orologj a sole: che mostrino l'ore conforme a quelle degli orologj, che suonano con altre tavole che servono per la construzione de' medesimi ... / calcolate da Gio: Lodovico Quadri.
Quadri, Giovanni Lodovico, 1700-1748.Date: 1733- Books
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A tutor to astronomie and geographie, or, An easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, cœlestial and terrestrial : in six books : the first teaching the rudiments of astronomie and geographie, the 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. shewing by the globe the solution of astronomical & geographical prob., problemes in navigation, arstological [sic] problemes, gnomonical problemes, trigonometrical problemes, more fully and amply than hath yet been set forth, either by Gemma Frisius, Metius, Hues, Wright, Blaew, or any others that have taught the use of the globes : and that so plainly and methodically that the meanest capacity may at first reading apprehend it, and with a little practice grow expert in these divine sciences : with an appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick sphere.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691Date: 1670- Pictures
People in Westphalia climbing up a hill on Sunday morning to attend a church service. Engraving by F. Dinger, 1899, after Hugo Becker.
Becker, L. Hugo (Ludwig Hugo), 1833-Date: 1899Reference: 3106244i- Books
The ivory sundials of Nuremberg 1500-1700 / Penelope Gouk.
Gouk, Penelope.Date: 1988
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La gnomonique universelle. Ou la science de tracer les cadrans solaires sur toutes sortes de surfaces tant stables que mobiles / [Anon].
Richer, Claude, 1680-1756.Date: 1701- Books
Mechaick dialling; or the new art of shadows / [Charles Leadbetter].
Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.Date: 1756- Archives and manuscripts
Regole per fare l'orologio astronomico orizontale et italico
Date: c. 1675Reference: MS.4183- Books
Guilielmi Blaeu Institutio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. Duabus partibus adornata, una, secundum hypothesin Ptolemæi, per terram quiescentem, altera, juxta mentem N. Copernici, per terram mobilem / Latine reddita a M. Hortensio.
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638.Date: 1640
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Diagrams for setting-out sundials. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 473337i
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Della sfera armillare e dell'uso di essa nella astronomia nautica e gnomonica. Opera / di Alberto Pappiani.
Pappiani, Alberto, 1709-1790.Date: 1745