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Horologiographia optica : dialling universall and particular, speculative and practicall, in a threefold praecognita, 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.

Accession number
PML 126408
Creator
Morgan, Sylvanus, 1620-1693.
Published
London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn for Andrew Kemb, and Robert Boydell, 1652.
Credit line
Purchased with the Richard Priest collection, 1994.
Notes
Added engraved t.p. by John Goddard.
Signatures: [pi]1 [A]² B-V⁴ (misprinting 'B1' for 'C1').
Description
[14], 144 p. : ill. (woodcuts, engravings) ; 18 cm
Provenance
Richard E. Priest.
Binding
Full calf.
Classification
Department