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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.

  • William Leybourn
Date:
1728
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — ing on of Colours in Oyl, fo as to en- dure the Weather, and confequently be fit for painting of Dials. | ' . ‘Fo prevent, or rather anticipate this Objection alfo, I have given Directions for the ordering of Ovl and Colours for painting of Sun-dials, (Page 254.) fo that this Piece of Dialling, with all the above-mentioned Improvements, and others therein contained, and nor here mentioned, I think, may, with- out Prefumption, be recommended fo the World, as the moft perfe? Com- Hiditcbe faid that Mr. Good’s Dialling hath acquired. the Name of a ufeful pear, by comparing the two laft Plates in Good’s Dialing, with Plate 9 and 16 in this Impreflion of Leydourn’s Dial- — «fingsiand if an imperfect Copy, or Ab- ftraét, be of Ufe, I hope much more _ the Original, with thofe ufeful Addi. tions with which it is now improv’d, by rf] t ® . MM true Lover ofthe Mathematicks, CHARLES LEADBETTER,
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