British astronomer
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Samuel Foster
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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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Miscellanies: or, mathematical lucubrations / Of Mr. Samuel Foster, sometime public professor of astronomie in Gresham colledge in London. Published, and many of them translated into English, by the care and industry of John Twysden. [In Latin and English] C.L.M.D. Whereunto he hath annexed some things of his own. The catalogue of all which the following page will shew.
Foster, Samuel, -1652Date: M.DC.LIX [1659]- Books
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The uses of a quadrant fitted for daily practise : Both with the ordinary lines for the hour and azimuth, and other things of the suns course in reference to the horizon. And also with new lines serving to the fore-mentioned and other purposes more accurately. As namely to find the hour of the night by the stars; to describe the most usuall sorts of dials; to perform all common things in mensuration. And many other requisite conclusions. Performed in an accurate, easie, and delightfull way. By Sam: Foster, Professor of Astronomie in Gresham Colledg. Published by A:T.
Foster, Samuel, -1652Date: 1652- Books
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Miscellanies, or Mathematical lucubrations of Mr. Samuel Foster / published and many of them translated into English by the care and industry of John Twysden.
Foster, Samuel, -1652Date: 1659- Books
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Posthuma Fosteri : the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the vses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usuall propositions in astronomie, navigation, and dialling, are facily performed. Also, a further use of the said scales in deliniating of far declining dials; and of those that decline and recline, three severall wayes. With the deliniating of all horizontall dials, between 30, and 60 gr of latitude, without drawing any lines but the houres themselves.
Foster, Samuel, -1652Date: 1652