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Diagrams for setting-out sundials. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 473337i- Pictures
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Diagrams for setting-out sundials. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 473301i- Books
Greek and Roman sundials / Sharon L. Gibbs.
Gibbs, Sharon L.Date: 1976- Books
The ivory sundials of Nuremberg 1500-1700 / Penelope Gouk.
Gouk, Penelope.Date: 1988- Pictures
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Clocks: sundials and other helio-observational equipment. Engraving by T. Jefferys.
Reference: 45217i- Books
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The City and country builder's, and workman's treasury of designs: or, the art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated, by upwards of four hundred grand designs, for Peirs, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney Pieces, Tabernacle Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochps, Pulpits, Types, Altar Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sundials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book Cases, Ciellings, and Iron Works. Finely engraved on 186 large quarto plate; Proportion by aliquot parts: To which are Prefix's, The Five Orders of Columns; according to Andrea Palladio, whose Members are proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner, than has been yet done. The Whole interspersed, With sure rules, for Working, all the Varieties of Raking Members in Pediments, Modilions, &c. The like, for the Immediate Use of workmen never published before, in any Language. By Batty Langley
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Pictures
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Clocks: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by A. Bell.
Date: 27 September 1809Reference: 45210i- Pictures
Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 45220i- Pictures
Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 45221i- Pictures
Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 45219i- Pictures
Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 45222i- Pictures
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Sarawak: two Kenyah people consulting a sundial. Photograph.
Reference: 30429i- Archives and manuscripts
Lucchini, Domenico ( -1737)
Lucchini, Domenico d.1737Date: c. 1735Reference: MS.3343- Books
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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
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- Books
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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- 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]- Books
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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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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- Books
La gnomonique, ou l'on donne par un principe general la maniere de faire des cadrans sur toutes sortes de surfaces, & d'y tracer les heures astronomiques, babyloniennes & italiques, les arcs des signes, les cercles des hauteurs, les verticaux & les autres cercles de la sphere / Tirée du Cours de mathématique de M. Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1746- Archives and manuscripts
Chambret, de
Chambret, deDate: 1682Reference: MS.1546- Books
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Leybourn's Dialling improv'd. Or, the whole art perform'd, I. geometrically ... II. arithmetically ... Also, how to describe all necessary furniture for sun-dials ... With reflective dialling ... To which is now added, instrumental dialling ... and likewise mechanick dialling ... with the manner of ordering oyl and colours for painting sun-dials. Concluding with tables ... / By Henry Wilson.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1728- Books
The art of shadows: or, universal dialling : With tables exactly calculated for the lat. of 51 deg. 30 min. viz. London ... / [John Good].
Good, John, active 1706-1733.Date: 1731