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An edition of Sciographia, or, The art of shadovves (1635)

Sciographia, or, The art of shadovves

plainly demonstrating, out of the sphere, how to project both great and small circles upon any plane whatsoever : with a new conceit of reflecting the sunne beames upon a diall, contrived on a plane, which the direct beames can never shine upon : together with the manner of cutting the five regular Platonicall bodies, and two other, the one of 12, the other of 30 rhombes, never discovered heretofore, also the finding of their declinations and reclinations and adorning them with variety of dials : all performed by the doctrine of triangles, and for ease and delight sake by helpe of ... logarithmes

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Sciographia, or, The art of shadovves
J. W., J. W.
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An edition of Sciographia, or, The art of shadovves (1635)

Sciographia, or, The art of shadovves

plainly demonstrating, out of the sphere, how to project both great and small circles upon any plane whatsoever : with a new conceit of reflecting the sunne beames upon a diall, contrived on a plane, which the direct beames can never shine upon : together with the manner of cutting the five regular Platonicall bodies, and two other, the one of 12, the other of 30 rhombes, never discovered heretofore, also the finding of their declinations and reclinations and adorning them with variety of dials : all performed by the doctrine of triangles, and for ease and delight sake by helpe of ... logarithmes

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Printed by Thomas Harper ...
Language
English
Pages
427

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Early works to 1800 Logarithms Sundials
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Sciographia, or, The art of shadovves: plainly demonstrating, out of the sphere, how to project both great and small circles upon any plane whatsoever : with a new conceit of reflecting the sunne beames upon a diall, contrived on a plane, which the direct beames can never shine upon : together with the manner of cutting the five regular Platonicall bodies, and two other, the one of 12, the other of 30 rhombes, never discovered heretofore, also the finding of their declinations and reclinations and adorning them with variety of dials : all performed by the doctrine of triangles, and for ease and delight sake by helpe of ... logarithmes
1635, Printed by Thomas Harper ...
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Edition Notes

STC (2nd ed.) 25234
"A few copies have bd. w. them unsold sheets of H. Brigg's and A. Vlacq's logarithmic tables pub'd at Gouda by P. Rammaseyn, 1626"--STC.
Signatures: [par.]⁸ A⁸ 2a⁶ B-2E⁸ 2F².
LC copy has 2 sets of tables, one of logarithms, the other of sines and tangents, bound at end.

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London
Genre
Early works to 1800.
Other Titles
Sciographia, Art of shadovves, Art of shadowes

Classifications

Library of Congress
QB215 .W6, QB215 .W6 (Rare Bk Coll.)

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Pagination
[44], 427 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) :
Number of pages
427

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7007945M
LCCN
09012962
OCLC/WorldCat
23647078

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Work ID
OL7714261W

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