Sylvanus Morgan, Horlogiographia Optica (1652)

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Date
1652
Author
Book title
Horlogiographia Optica. Dialling Vniversall and Particular: Speculative and Practicall. In a threefold Præcognita, 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
Publication place
London
Printer
R. and W. Leybourn
Publisher
Andrew Kemb and Robert Boydell
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • cosmography and astrology
  • heraldry
  • mathematics
Summary
The "Genealogie of the Arts proceeding from the Conjunction of Arithmetick and Geometry collected by the famous Beda Dee in his Mathematicall Præface" (pp. 141-43) provides 26 word-entries
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
141-43
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Statick, is an Art Mathematicall, demonstrating the causes of heavinesse and lightnesse of things. (p. 142)
Wing
M2741