Posthuma Fosteri : the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales : and the uses thereof / invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster.
Material type:
TextSeries: ShawdowCatchers ; II.Publisher: [United States] : North American Sundial Society, 2001Description: vi, 80 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- Description of a ruler
- Mathematical instruments -- Early works to 1800
- Mathematics -- Early works to 1800
- Astronomy -- Early works to 1800
- Nautical astronomy -- Early works to 1800
- Navigation -- Instruments -- Early works to 1800
- Nautical instruments -- Early works to 1800
- Dialing -- Early works to 1800
- textbook
- historic
- how-to
- dialling
- scales
- ruler
- proportions
- Sundials
- United Kingdom
- Astronomy
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Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room | QA77 .F67 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31560000015228 |
Reproduction of the original in the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Reprint. Originally published: London : Robert and William Leybourn, 1652.
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A facsimile edition of the 1652 post-humus edition of Fosters work on dialing scales by Laybourn as reproduced from the CD-ROM (BHM No. 8983) from NASS.
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