Traite D'Horlogiographie, Contenant Plusieurs Manieres de construire sur toutes surfaces toutes sortes de lignes horaires, & autres cercles de la Sphere
by Pierre de Sainte Marie Magdeleine
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About This Item
Lyon: Leonard Plaignard, 1691. 4th. Good. Brown leather over boards with gilded spine. Binding holding tightly. Fore edges colored red. Frontispiece present. Complete with 72 plaques, (of which two are folding) bound after the text. Engravings include a complete accounting of the Zodiac and additional means of reading the stars. In full contemporary calfskin boards, quite worn, with joints cracked, and loss at head and tail, gilt-tooled spine; small marginal waterstain at the back depicting a variety of means to reading sun dials, moon dials, and at sea. First published in 1641, it was very successful and was reprinted several times. This fourth edition is revised and enlarged; it contains at the end some chapters of stereotomy. By applying the principles of spherical trigonometry, the author indicates the methods for constructing all kinds of sundials and tracing them on all kinds of supports, but also Moon dials or methods of knowing the time at night using the stars. The work ends with elements of stereotomy.
Pages: (16) 324 + 72 engravings
Dimensions: 6¼ x 4 x 1¼ .
Pages: (16) 324 + 72 engravings
Dimensions: 6¼ x 4 x 1¼ .
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- Bookseller
- John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1691TDH-MAG-4-G
- Title
- Traite D'Horlogiographie, Contenant Plusieurs Manieres de construire sur toutes surfaces toutes sortes de lignes horaires, & autres cercles de la Sphere
- Author
- Pierre de Sainte Marie Magdeleine
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th
- Publisher
- Leonard Plaignard
- Place of Publication
- Lyon
- Date Published
- 1691
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