Elliptical or azimuthal horologiography comprehending severall wayes of describing dials upon all kindes of superficies, either plain or curved, and unto upright stiles in whatsoever position they shall be placed / invented and demonstrated by Samuel Foster ...
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Elliptical or azimuthal horologiography comprehending severall wayes of describing dials upon all kindes of superficies, either plain or curved, and unto upright stiles in whatsoever position they shall be placed / invented and demonstrated by Samuel Foster ...
Author
Foster, Samuel, d. 1652.
Publication
London :: Printed by R. & W. Leybourn for Nicholas Bourn ...,
1654.
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Horology -- Early works to 1800.
Sundials.
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"Elliptical or azimuthal horologiography comprehending severall wayes of describing dials upon all kindes of superficies, either plain or curved, and unto upright stiles in whatsoever position they shall be placed / invented and demonstrated by Samuel Foster ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40031.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2025.
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The manner how to fashion the Cock which holdeth the Index.
The fashion may be seen by the figure A C D. At A is the place of the fiduciall point of the foot of the Index to be assigned: and in that point a hole must be pierced, and a threed fixed. Then the Cock must have two holes more pierced, one at C, the other at D, both to stand perpendi∣cularly over the line of 12. That at C must be so placed, that the angle C A B may be 70¾ gr. That at D must be placed so, that D A B may be an angle of 90 gr.
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