GNOMONICS
GNOMONICS -
The art of making good sundials or practical instruction to make all kinds of ordinary sundials geometrically and arithmetically. With gest. Frontispiece, title vign. and 70 copper plates, and numerous partly folded. Tables.
Ulm, etc., Gaum, 1762. 8°. [7] pages, 400 p., [4] pages. Plain pp. d. Z. with hs. back label (slightly spotted, a little bit rubbed and bruised
).
Engelmann, Bibl. mech.-techn., 206th - treats among other things the "geometric outline of sundials", "including clocks", tools, "making of all kinds of movable clocks", "description of sundials by the horizontal and vertical arcs". - Slightly browned on average, slightly fingerstained in places, overall clean copy. Plates partly somewhat trimmed close together. - No mention of ownership, according to oral tradition from the former property of the Swiss forestry pioneer Melchior Wagner (1778-1861; cf. Hagendörfer Jahrringe 2011, p. 76).
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GNOMONICS -
The art of making good sundials or practical instruction to make all kinds of ordinary sundials geometrically and arithmetically. With gest. Frontispiece, title vign. and 70 copper plates, and numerous partly folded. Tables.
Ulm, etc., Gaum, 1762. 8°. [7] pages, 400 p., [4] pages. Plain pp. d. Z. with hs. back label (slightly spotted, a little bit rubbed and bruised
).
Engelmann, Bibl. mech.-techn., 206th - treats among other things the "geometric outline of sundials", "including clocks", tools, "making of all kinds of movable clocks", "description of sundials by the horizontal and vertical arcs". - Slightly browned on average, slightly fingerstained in places, overall clean copy. Plates partly somewhat trimmed close together. - No mention of ownership, according to oral tradition from the former property of the Swiss forestry pioneer Melchior Wagner (1778-1861; cf. Hagendörfer Jahrringe 2011, p. 76).
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