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La gnomonique, ou l'on donne par un principe general la maniere de faire des cadrans sur toutes sortes de surfaces, & d'y tracer les heures astronomiques, babyloniennes & italiques, les arcs des signes, les cercles des hauteurs, les verticaux & les autres cercles de la sphere / Tirée du Cours de mathématique de M. Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1746
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Chambret, de
Chambret, deDate: 1682Reference: MS.1546
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Orontij Finei Delphinatis, regij mathematicarum professoris, de solaribus horologiis, & quadrantibus, libri quatuor.
Fine, Oronce, 1494-1555.Date: [1560]
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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.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1728
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The art of shadows: or, universal dialling : With tables exactly calculated for the lat. of 51 deg. 30 min. viz. London ... / [John Good].
Good, John, active 1706-1733.Date: 1731
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A tutor to astronomie and geographie. Or, An easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial and terrestrial : with an appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick sphere / by Joseph Moxon.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.Date: 1670
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Lucchini, Domenico ( -1737)
Lucchini, Domenico d.1737Date: c. 1735Reference: MS.3343
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The mathematical principles of geography. Containing, I. An account of the various properties and affections of the earth and sea, with a description of the several parts thereof, and a table of the latitude and longitude of places, II. The use of the artificial or terrestrial globe, in solving problems, III. The principles of spherical and spheroidical sailing, with the solution of the several cases in numbers, by the common tables, according to the spheroidical figure of the earth / [William Emerson].
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: 1770
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Méthode nouvelle et générale pour tracer facilement des cadrans solaires sur toutes surfaces planes en situation quelconque, sans calcul ni embarras d'instrumens ... Principes et usage du comput et de l'art de vérifier les dates / par m. De la Prise.
Gervais de la Prise, Jacques.Date: 1781
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Della fabrica, et vso di vn nouo stromento fatto in quattro maniere per fare gli horologi solari ad ogni latitudine, con tutte le sorti di hore, che si vsano, il quale si può vsare per horologio ancora; nouo trattato diuiso in due parti / Di m. Gio. Paolo Gallucci.
Gallucci, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1621?Date: 1590
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Christophori Clavii ... Horologiorum nova descriptio / [Christoph Clavius].
Clavius, Christoph, 1538-1612.Date: 1599
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Retta linea gnomonica. Di Givseppe Maria Figatelli Centese, ouero breuissima estensione instruttiua frà due punti di chiarezza, e facilità per delineare horologi horizontali, verticali, e ristessi, con alcuni pochi de più vsati frà portatili. Operetta assai diletteuole per il nuouo, & vniuersal modo d'operare, in qual si sia horologio ristesso / [Giuseppe Maria Figatelli].
Figatelli, Giuseppe Maria.Date: 1667
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Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 45219i
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The Dā'ire-yī Mu'addel of Seydī'Alī Re'īs / by William Brice, Colin Imber and Richard Lorch.
Brice, William C. (William Charles), 1921-2007.Date: 1976
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Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and optics, with the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses / By James Ferguson.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: 1803
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Diagrams for setting-out sundials. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 473301i
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The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton Road, Fulham: viewed from the road. Lithograph by T. G. Dutton after F. J. Francis, 1844.
Francis, Frederick J., 1818-1896.Date: [1845]Reference: 24898i
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A tutor to astronomy and geography, or, An easie and speedy way to understand the use of both the globes, celestial and terrestrial : laid down in so plain a manner that a mean capacity may at the first reading understand it and with a little practise, grow expert in those divine sciences / translated from the first part of Guliulmus Blaeu, Institutio Astronomica ; published by J. Moxom.
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638Date: 1654
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A tutor to astronomy and geography, or, An easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, cœlestial and terrestial : in six books : The 1. teaching the rudiments of astronomy and geography, the 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. shewing by the globes the solution of astronomical and geographical problemes, problemes in navigation, astrological problemes, gnomonical problemes, trigonometrical problemes more fully and amply than hath yet been set forth, either by Gemna Frisins, Metius, Hues, Wright, Blaew, or any others that have taught the use of the globes : and that so plainly and methodically, that the meanest capacity may at first reading apprehend it, and with a little practice grow expert in these divine sciences : with an appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick sphere / by Joseph Moxon.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691Date: 1686
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The young gentleman's astronomy, chronology, and dialling, containing such elements of the said arts or sciences, as are most useful and easy to be known / [Edward Wells].
Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.Date: 1725
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De horologiis Sciothericis libri tres / Joanne Voello.
Voellus, Jean, 1541-1610.Date: 1608
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La gnomonique pratique, ou l'art de tracer avec la plus grande précision les cadrans solaires ... / Par Dom François Bedos de Celles.
Bedos de Celles, François, 1709-1779.Date: 1790
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La manière vniverselle de Mr. Desargves lyonnois, povr poser l'essiev, et placer les heures et autres choses aux cadrans av soleil / Par A. Bosse.
Desargues, Gérard, 1591-1661.Date: 1643
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Gvilielmi Blaev Institvtio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. Dvabvs partibvs adornata, vna, secundum hypothesin Ptolemæi, per terram quiescentem. Altera, juxta mentem N. Copernici, per terram mobilem / Latinè reddita à M. Hortensio.
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638.Date: 1655
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An introduction to astronomy and geography : being a plain and easie treatise of the globes : in VII parts ... / by William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716Date: 1675

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Orontij Finei Delphinatis, regij mathematicarum professoris, de solaribus horologiis, & quadrantibus, libri quatuor.

The art of shadows: or, universal dialling : With tables exactly calculated for the lat. of 51 deg. 30 min. viz. London ... / [John Good].

A tutor to astronomie and geographie. Or, An easie and speedy way to know the use of both the globes, coelestial and terrestrial : with an appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick sphere / by Joseph Moxon.

Lucchini, Domenico ( -1737)

Méthode nouvelle et générale pour tracer facilement des cadrans solaires sur toutes surfaces planes en situation quelconque, sans calcul ni embarras d'instrumens ... Principes et usage du comput et de l'art de vérifier les dates / par m. De la Prise.

Della fabrica, et vso di vn nouo stromento fatto in quattro maniere per fare gli horologi solari ad ogni latitudine, con tutte le sorti di hore, che si vsano, il quale si può vsare per horologio ancora; nouo trattato diuiso in due parti / Di m. Gio. Paolo Gallucci.

Christophori Clavii ... Horologiorum nova descriptio / [Christoph Clavius].

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

The Dā'ire-yī Mu'addel of Seydī'Alī Re'īs / by William Brice, Colin Imber and Richard Lorch.

Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and optics, with the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses / By James Ferguson.

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

The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton Road, Fulham: viewed from the road. Lithograph by T. G. Dutton after F. J. Francis, 1844.

The young gentleman's astronomy, chronology, and dialling, containing such elements of the said arts or sciences, as are most useful and easy to be known / [Edward Wells].

De horologiis Sciothericis libri tres / Joanne Voello.

La gnomonique pratique, ou l'art de tracer avec la plus grande précision les cadrans solaires ... / Par Dom François Bedos de Celles.

La manière vniverselle de Mr. Desargves lyonnois, povr poser l'essiev, et placer les heures et autres choses aux cadrans av soleil / Par A. Bosse.

Gvilielmi Blaev Institvtio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. Dvabvs partibvs adornata, vna, secundum hypothesin Ptolemæi, per terram quiescentem. Altera, juxta mentem N. Copernici, per terram mobilem / Latinè reddita à M. Hortensio.

An introduction to astronomy and geography : being a plain and easie treatise of the globes : in VII parts ... / by William Leybourn.