Device that tells the time of day by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky

Clocks: a large carved stone gnomon, dated 1714, on Lord Reay's estate at Tongue. Lithograph after a drawing by C. G. Loch.

The Old (now 'La Specola') and New Observatories, Florence, Italy. Reproduction of a pen drawing by A. Pochini.

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.

Diagrams for setting-out sundials. Engraving by J. Taylor.

Sarawak: two Kenyah people consulting a sundial. Photograph.

Clocks: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by A. Bell.

Hezekiah lies ailing in bed, surrounded by anxious soldiers and ministers. Engraving.

1 print : engraving ; image and border 20.2 x 26.7 cm

6 unnumbered leaves, xliii, 272 pages, 9 folded plates : portrait ; (8vo)

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.

1 volume<br/>8 leaves first 2 & last bl.. + 67 pages + 5 bl. leaves + 1 leaf + 57 pages 4to. 22 x 171/ ; 2 cm Original mottled calf binding. A number of margins are stained with green paint.

Chambret, de.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 37.6 x 20.4 cm

Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.

Mechanick exercises  or the doctrine of handy-works. Applied to the arts of smithing joinery carpentry turning bricklayery. To which is added Mechanick dyalling: Shewing how to draw a true Sun-Dyal on any given Plane, however Scituated; only with the help of a straight Ruler and a pair of Compasses, and without any Arithmetical Calculation. The third edition. By Joseph Moxon, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Hydrographer to the late King Charles.

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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.

Chambret, de.

Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.

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.

Chambret, de.

Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.

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