Horologiographia: or, The art of dyalling, : being the second book of the use of the trianguler-quadrant. Shewing the natural, artificial, and instrumental way, of making of sun-dials, on any flat superficies: with plain and easie directions, to discover their nature and affections, by the horizontal projection. With the way of drawing the usual ornaments on any plain: also, a familiar easie way to draw those lines on the ceiling of a room, by the trianguler quadrant. Also, the use of the same instrument in navigation; both for observation, and operation. Performing the use of several sea-instruments still in use. / By John Brown, philomath.
- Brown, John (Philomath)
- Date:
- 1671
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Description and use of the trianguler-quadrant. Part 2
Art of dyalling
Appendix to the use of the trianguler-quadrant in navigation
Publication/Creation
London : printed by John Darby, for John Wingfield, and are to be sold at his house in Crutched-Fryers; and by John Brown at the Sphear and Sun Dial in the Minories; and by John Seller at the Hermitage-stairs in Wapping, 1671.
Physical description
305 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 41 unnumbered plates (some folded) : portrait ; 8vo (15 cm)
Contributors
References note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B5042
ESTC (RLIN), R17803
Notes
The frontispiece is signed: R:G.
"An appendix to the use of the trianguler-quadrant in navigation" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
The first part, "The description and use of the trianguler-quadrant" was published in the same year.
Copy 1. Lacks frontispiece and final leaf (blank?). Many plates are loose. Lacks 6 plates? Bound with his Description and use of the trianguler-quadrant. 1671.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/A/15659.2