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].

London : Printed by J. Matthews, for A. and J. Churchill, 1700.

6 unnumbered leaves, 156, 191 pages, engr. frontispiece (port.) & folded plates : including illustrations, tables, diagrams (some folded) ; (folio)

2nd ed. corrected /

"For... part 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 Foster's written with his own hand in anno 1640... The ninth tractate is wholly Mr. Samuel Foster's... The tenth tractate also, is wholly his, and was... transcribed from a manuscript of his, which he... entituled Gold... The eleventh tractate... is Mr. Foster's also"-Pref

The twelfth tractate: Reflex dialling ... By John Twysden. Another way of reflex dialling, being the extract of a letter, written by Mr. Im. Halton

Wing L1913

ESTC R738

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), L1913