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"From the preparation and the smell of the [Sundial]." German handwriting on paper. Red and black ink. With calligraphic and figurative title and 21 folded. Original ink pen drawings.
Around 1800. Eight degrees. [6] Bulletin, 487 hs. See Marbled leather currently with gold backplate (joints somewhat chipped, slightly rubbed and scraped, slightly bruised
).
Clean and easy to read transcript from Nicolas Bion's Mathematical Work School which, in J. Doppelmayr's translation, was revised and extended several times in Nuremberg in the 1720s "This is the best of the early classical treatises upon the subject of mathematical instruments, and is profusely illustrated" (cf. Smith, Rara Arithmetica II, 359). - Somewhat browned and foxing, the plates partly stronger, these additionally with slight marginal glazes.
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GNOMONICS -
"From the preparation and the smell of the [Sundial]." German handwriting on paper. Red and black ink. With calligraphic and figurative title and 21 folded. Original ink pen drawings.
Around 1800. Eight degrees. [6] Bulletin, 487 hs. See Marbled leather currently with gold backplate (joints somewhat chipped, slightly rubbed and scraped, slightly bruised
).
Clean and easy to read transcript from Nicolas Bion's Mathematical Work School which, in J. Doppelmayr's translation, was revised and extended several times in Nuremberg in the 1720s "This is the best of the early classical treatises upon the subject of mathematical instruments, and is profusely illustrated" (cf. Smith, Rara Arithmetica II, 359). - Somewhat browned and foxing, the plates partly stronger, these additionally with slight marginal glazes.
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