Thomas Strode, A New and Easy Method to the Art of Dialling (1688)
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Date
1688
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Book title
A New and Easie Method To The Art Of Dyalling Containing I. All Horizontal Dyals, all Upright Dyals, Reflecting Dyals, Dyals without Centres, Nocturnal Dyals, Upright Declining Dyals, without knowing the Declination of the Plane. II. The most Natural and Easie Way of Describing the Curve-Lines of the Suns Declination on any Plane
Publication place
London
Publisher
H. C., J. Taylor, and T. Newborough
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
mathematics
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type: alphabetical
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type: headword
sample: A Reflecting Dyal (if the Ceiling of the Room on which it is to be made, and the Glass, be Parallel to the Horizon) is but an Horizontal Dyal reversed; for that, according to the Opticks, the Sun, the Glass, and the Reflection are in a streight Line, and the Angle of Reflection is equal to the Angle of Incidence, and the Glass you must conceive to be one Point of the Gnomon; with a little Water placed by the Glass, you may try by its Reflection whether the Glass stands Horizontally. (p. 22)
sample: A Reflecting Dyal (if the Ceiling of the Room on which it is to be made, and the Glass, be Parallel to the Horizon) is but an Horizontal Dyal reversed; for that, according to the Opticks, the Sun, the Glass, and the Reflection are in a streight Line, and the Angle of Reflection is equal to the Angle of Incidence, and the Glass you must conceive to be one Point of the Gnomon; with a little Water placed by the Glass, you may try by its Reflection whether the Glass stands Horizontally. (p. 22)
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