Horlogiographia optica. Dialling universall and particular: speculative and practicall. In a threefold præcognita, viz. geometricall, philosophicall, and astronomicall: and a threefold practise, viz. arithmeticall, geometricall, and instrumentall. With diverse propositions of the use and benefit of shadows, serving to prick down the signes, declination, and azimuths, on sun-dials, and diverse other benefits. Illustrated by diverse opticall conceits, taken out of Augilonius, Kercherius, Clavius, and others. Lastly, topothesia, or, a feigned description of the court of art. Full of benefit for the making of dials, use of the globes, difference of meridians, and most propositions of astronomie. Together with many usefull instruments and dials in brasse, made by Walter Hayes, at the Crosse Daggers in More Fields. / Written by Silvanus Morgan.

Title

Horlogiographia optica. Dialling universall and particular: speculative and practicall. In a threefold præcognita, viz. geometricall, philosophicall, and astronomicall: and a threefold practise, viz. arithmeticall, geometricall, and instrumentall. With diverse propositions of the use and benefit of shadows, serving to prick down the signes, declination, and azimuths, on sun-dials, and diverse other benefits. Illustrated by diverse opticall conceits, taken out of Augilonius, Kercherius, Clavius, and others. Lastly, topothesia, or, a feigned description of the court of art. Full of benefit for the making of dials, use of the globes, difference of meridians, and most propositions of astronomie. Together with many usefull instruments and dials in brasse, made by Walter Hayes, at the Crosse Daggers in More Fields. / Written by Silvanus Morgan.

Author

Morgan, Sylvanus, 1620-1693.

Publication

London :: Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Andrew Kemb, and Robert Boydell, and are to be sold at St. Margarets Hill in Southwark, and at the Bulwark neer the Tower,

1652.

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Subject terms

Dialing -- Early works to 1800.

Globes -- Early works to 1800.

Sundials -- England -- Early works to 1800.

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"Horlogiographia optica. Dialling universall and particular: speculative and practicall. In a threefold præcognita, viz. geometricall, philosophicall, and astronomicall: and a threefold practise, viz. arithmeticall, geometricall, and instrumentall. With diverse propositions of the use and benefit of shadows, serving to prick down the signes, declination, and azimuths, on sun-dials, and diverse other benefits. Illustrated by diverse opticall conceits, taken out of Augilonius, Kercherius, Clavius, and others. Lastly, topothesia, or, a feigned description of the court of art. Full of benefit for the making of dials, use of the globes, difference of meridians, and most propositions of astronomie. Together with many usefull instruments and dials in brasse, made by Walter Hayes, at the Crosse Daggers in More Fields. / Written by Silvanus Morgan." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89305.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• TO WILLIAM BATEMAN, Esqrs.TO ANTHONY BATEMAN, Esqrs.TO THOMAS BATEMAN, Esqrs. Sons to the late Honourable THOMAS BATEMAN, Esq Chamberlain of LONDON, Deceased.
• TO THE READER.
• In Solarium.
• On my Friend Mr. Silvanus Morgan, his Book of Dialling.
• On the Author and his Book.
• ERRATA.
• THE ARGVMENT OF THE Praecognita Geometricall, and of the Work in generall.
• THE PRAECOGNITA GEOMETRICAL.
• THE ARGVMENT OF THE Praecognita Philosophicall.
• THE PRAECOGNITA PHILOSOPHICAL.
  • CHAP I.
  • CHAP II.
  • CHAP III.
  • CHAP IV.
  • CHAP V.
• THE ARGVMENT OF THE Praecognita Astronomicall.
• THE PRAECOGNITA ASTRONOMICAL.
  • CHAP I.
  • CHAP II.
  • CHAP III.
  • CHAP IV.
  • CHAP V.
  • CHAP VI.
  • CHAP VII.
    • The Geometricall projection of Dials.
  • CHAP VIII.
  • CHAP IX.
• THE ARGVMENT OF Practicall Sciothericy Optical.
  • Horologium Vitae.
• HOROLOGIOGRAPHIA OPTICA.
  • CHAP I.
    • The Arithmeticall Calculation.
    • The figure of an Horizontall Diall, for the Latitude of London 51d. 30m.
    • The figure of a South Verticall plane, for the Latitude of London, which is parallel to the Prime Verticall.
  • CHAP II.
    • The Arithmeticall Calculation.
  • CHAP III.
    • The Figure of a direct East and West Diall for the Latitude of London, ▪51 deg. 30 min.
  • CHAP IV.
    • The Arithmeticall Calculation.
  • CHAP V.
    • Arithmeticall calculation.
  • CHAP VI.
  • CHAP VII.
    • II Operation.
    • III Operation.
    • IV Operation.
  • CHAP VIII.
  • CHAP IX.
    • In a given plane oblique to the Meridian, and to the Horizon, and to the prime Verticall, that is, a given plane Inclining declining, to finde as well the Meridian of the place as of the plane, and the elevation of the pole above the plane: Prob. 3, Petici, Liber Gnomonicorum.
    • The second case of the third Probleme of Pitiscus his Liber Gnomonicorum.
  • CHAP X.
  • CHAP XI.
  • CHAP XII.
    • tables
  • CHAP XIII.
  • CHAP XIV.
  • CHAP X.
    • For the Altitude of the Sun.
    • For the Houre of the Day.
    • For the Declination and degree of the Signe.
  • CHAP XVI.
  • CHAP XVII.
  • CHAP XVIII.
    • Here followeth the problematical Propositions of the Of∣fice of shadow, and the benefit we receive thereof.
• TO ABRAHAM CHAMBRELAN Esq. S M. consecrateth his Court of Arts.
• TOPOTHESIA. OR An IMAGINARY DESCRIPTION of the COƲRT of ART.
  • genealogy
  • section