A short treatise of dialling shewing, the making of all sorts of sun-dials, horizontal, erect, direct, declining, inclining, reclining; vpon any flat or plaine superficies, howsoeuer placed, with ruler and compasse onely, without any arithmeticall calculation. By Edvvard Wright.

Title

A short treatise of dialling shewing, the making of all sorts of sun-dials, horizontal, erect, direct, declining, inclining, reclining; vpon any flat or plaine superficies, howsoeuer placed, with ruler and compasse onely, without any arithmeticall calculation. By Edvvard Wright.

Author

Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.

Publication

London :: Printed by Iohn Beale for William Welby,

1614.

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Dialing -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• The Contents of this Booke.
• errata
• CAP. I. The making of the Clinatory.
• CAP. II. The first diuision of Dials into Horizontall, erect inclining, and reclining.
• CAP. III. The second diuision of Dials into direct and declining.
• CHAP. IV. The third diuision of Dials, either agreeing with the plaine of the Meridian, or disagreeing from the same.
• CHAP. V. To finde the eleuation of the Meridian line aboue the Horizon.
• CHAP. VI. The describing of the figure of the Diall first on pa∣per or pasteboard.
• CHAP. VII. The making of Aequinoctiall Dials.
• CHAP. VIII. The finding of the substilar line, and stile, in grounds not Equinoctiall direct, and Polar.
• CHAP. IX. The finding of the distance of the stile from the Me∣ridian line in Dials that be neither equinoctial nor polar.
• CHAP. X. The finding of the substilar line and the distance of the stile from it, when the stile maketh a right angle with the meridian line.
• CHAP. XI. From which end of the Meridian line, the eleuation of the stile is to be counted.
• CHAP. XII. The finding of the substilar line and stile in Dials that be not Polar nor Equinoctiall, The stile making ob∣lique angles with the Meridian line.
• CHAP. XIII. The drawing of the line of Contingence, and of the Equinoctiall circle, and how it must be diuided.
• CHAP. XIIII. The drawing of the houre lines in all Dials that bee not Equinoctiall.
• CHAP. XV. What number must be set to the houre lines.
• CHAP. XVI. What houre lines are to be expressed in all sorts of Dials.
• CHAP. XVII. How to translate the Diall drawne on paper or paste∣board vnto the Dial ground.
• illustrations