item: #1 of 10
          id: A35744
      author: Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.
       title: Mr. De Sargues Universal way of dyaling, or, Plain and easie directions for placing the axeltree and marking the hours in sun-dyals, after the French, Italian, Babylonian, and Jewish manner together with the manner of drawing the lines of the signs, of finding out the height of the sun above the horizon, and the east-rising of the same, the elevation of the pole, and the position of the meridian ... / [edited] by Daniel King, Gent.
        date: 1659
       words: 26747
      flesch: 53
     summary: Now with this space BC of the figure above , come back to the figure below , and set at your discretion one of the feet of the Compasse upon the straight line that you have drawn there , as for example set it to the point B , then turning the Compasse about upon this point B , draw with the other foot a circular line CG , which circle by this means shall have a space BC equal with the space BC of the higher figure , and will meet the line BD for example in the point C. Go back again to the figure above , take there after the same manner the space from the end or point of the pin B to the point of shadow D , and with this space come back to the figure below , and set again one of the feet of your Compasse to the point B , and holding it still upon this point B draw with the other foot a second circular line DH , that will be equal with the space above BD , and that may meet the line BC , for example in the point D. Go back again to the figure above , and take with your Compasse the space betwixt the point of the pin B and the point of shadow F , and with this space come back to the figure below set one of the feet of the Compasse to the point B , and draw with the other foot a third circular line FE , with the space BF of the figure above , and that may meet the line BD for example in the point F. The lines that are drawn upon the superficies of the Dyal , and that shew each of them one of the hours after the French way , I call them lines of the hours after the French way .
    keywords: axeltree; circle; compasse; draw; dyal; figure; foot; hours; line; place; point; point b; rod; shadow; space; string; superficies; way
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: A38104
      author: Edwards, Thomas, mathematician.
       title: Dialling made easy, or, Tables calculated for the latitude of Oxford (but will serve without sensible difference for most parts of England) by the help of which, and a line of chords, the hour-lines may quickly and exactly be described upon most sorts of useful dials : with some brief directions for making two sorts of spot dials / by T.E.
        date: 1692
       words: 14965
      flesch: 85
     summary: 2. Draw the Diameters A C and B D at right angles , in the center O. A C shall be the hour of 12 , and B D the hour of 6. 3. Turn to your Table of Equinoctial Dials , and see what numbers answer to every hour ; take the said numbers from your line of chords , and prick them down in the circle A B C D on both sides the line of 12 : draw lines from these points thro the center O , and your work is done . Note . Likewise take 24 d 23′ for the 2d and 10th hour , and set it from m to b b. Take 38 d 9′ and set it from m to c c ; work after the same manner for the remaining hours .
    keywords: dial; line; sub
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: A40031
      author: Foster, Samuel, d. 1652.
       title: Elliptical or azimuthal horologiography comprehending severall wayes of describing dials upon all kindes of superficies, either plain or curved, and unto upright stiles in whatsoever position they shall be placed / invented and demonstrated by Samuel Foster ...
        date: 1654
       words: 50908
      flesch: 65
     summary: So again from p and o , t and q , lines are to be drawn , concurring at right angles in s and r , which are two other points of passage for the Ellipsis . And if the Ellipsis be first drawn , then the exteriour Circle it selfe by lines issuing out of f h p q , drawn parallel to A n ) will divide the Ellipsis : or , where these lines cut it more obliquely ( as at g and r , &c. )
    keywords: circle; diall; ellipsis; equinoctiall; horizon; horizontall; horizontall plain; houre; index; latitude; line; meridian line; parallel; place; plain; point; radius; scale; set; sine; tangent; way; zenith line; zodiac
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: A48262
      author: Oughtred, William, 1575-1660. aut
       title: Mathematicall recreations. Or, A collection of many problemes, extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fire-works, &c. Not vulgarly manifest till now. Written first in Greeke and Latin, lately compi'ld in French, by Henry Van Etten, and now in English, with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians whereunto is added the description and use of the generall horologicall ring: and the double horizontall diall. Invented and written by William Oughtred.
        date: 1653
       words: 73427
      flesch: 62
     summary: Containing m●ny ple●sant Questions by way of Arithmetick● . Secondly , to give a greater grace to the practice of these things , they ought to be concealed as much as they may , in the subtiltie of the way ; for that which doth ravish the spirits is , an admirable effect , whose cause is unknowne : which if it were discovered , halfe the pleasure is l●st ; therefore all the finenesse consists in the dexterity of the Act , concealing the meanes , and changing often the streame .
    keywords: adde; aire; body; cards; cause; centre; circle; day; distance; earth; end; equall; eye; fire; foot; glasse; gold; halfe; hand; hath; help; hole; houre; length; lesse; line; makes; man; motion; north; number; parts; passe; pipe; place; point; pound; problem; rest; right; said; second; small; square; sun; sunne; things; thought; time; vessell; viz; vvater; vvhich; vvill; water; way; weight; world; ● ●
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: A51544
      author: Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.
       title: Mechanick dyalling teaching any man, though of an ordinary capacity and unlearned in the mathematicks, to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane, however scituated : only with the help of a straight ruler and a pair of compasses, and without any arithmetical calculation / by Joseph Moxon ...
        date: 1668
       words: 15102
      flesch: 62
     summary: DYalling originally is a Mathematical Science , attained by the Philosophical contemplation of the motion of the Sun , the motion of the Shaddow , the Constitution of the Sphere , the Scituation of Planes , and the consideration of Lines . And therefore Scientifick Dyalists by the Geometrick considerations of Lines , have found out Rules to mark out the irregular motion of the Shaddow in all Latitudes , and on all Planes , to comply with the regular motion of the Sun.
    keywords: center; circle; clock line; degrees; distance; draw; dyal; hour line; line; meridian line; plane; point; quadrant; semi; south
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: A60467
      author: Smith, John, b. 1648?
       title: The art of painting wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting, according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours, not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work ... / composed by John Smith, philomath.
        date: 1676
       words: 12030
      flesch: 65
     summary: The art of painting wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting, according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours, not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work ... / composed by John Smith, philomath. The art of painting wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting, according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours, not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work ... / composed by John Smith, philomath.
    keywords: chap; colour; dial; fine; gold; ground; lead; oyl; painting; use; way; white; work
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: A67225
      author: Wynn, Henry, d. 1709.
       title: The description and uses of the general horological-ring: or universal ring-dyal Being the invention of the late reverend Mr. W. Oughtred, as it is usually made of a portable pocket size. With a large and correct table of the latitudes of the principal places in every shire throughout England and Wales, &c. And several ways to find a meridian-line for the setting a horizontal dyal. By Henry Wynne, maker of mathematical instruments near the Sugar-loaf in Chancery-lane.
        date: 1682
       words: 6407
      flesch: 73
     summary: With a large and correct Table of the Latitudes of the principal Places in every Shire throughout England and Wales , &c. And several ways to find a Meridian-line for the setting a Horizontal Dyal . The little Ring and its slider is called the Cursor of the Meridian , and is represented ( figl . ) by the letter Z. 2. Of the two Circles , the outermost M M M M , is called the Meridian , and the innermost Ae Ae Ae Ae , is called the Aequinoctial .
    keywords: aequinoctial; altitude; cursor; day; declination; deg; latitude; line; meridian; suns
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: A89305
      author: Goddard, John, fl. 1645-1671, engraver.
       title: Horlogiographia optica. Dialling universall 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. / Written by Silvanus Morgan.
        date: 1652
       words: 31381
      flesch: 54
     summary: Or thus , Draw a great many Circles concentricall one within another , then observe by the Circles about noone when the Sun casts the shortest shadow , and that then shall represent a true Meridian , the reason why you must observe the length of the shadow by circles & not by lines is , because if the Sun have not attained to the true Meridian it wil cast its shadow from a line , and so my eye may deceive me , when as by Circles the Sun casting shadow round about , still meetes with one circumference or other , and so we may observe diligently . Now if you imagine the Circle before described to represent the Meridian Circle which crossed diametrically , which diameter shall represent the Aequinoctiall , then laying down the greatest declination , on either side of it , drawing two lines at that distance , on either side of the Aequinoctiall , parallel to it , represent the Tropicks , the upper representing the Tropick of Cancer , marked with GE , the other the Tropick of Capricorn , marked with HI : and if from each severall degree you draw parallels too , they doe represent the parallels of the Sun , which shall shew the diurnall motion of the Sun : now if you crosse these parallels with a line from E to H , that then represents the Ecliptique ; now if you crosse the Aequino-Ctiall at right angles with another line , that line represents the Axis of the World : then if you lay down from the Poles the elevation thereof , to wit , the North and South Poles , according to the elevation of the North Pole downward , where the number of degrees end make a mark ; then account the same elevation from the South Pole upward , and there also make a mark , from which two marks draw a right line , which shall represent your Horizon , and cuts the parallels of the Sun according to the time of his abiding above the Horizon .
    keywords: altitude; angle; center; circle; declination; degrees; diall; distance; doth; draw; earth; east; elevation; horizon; horizontall; houre; line; meridian; north; p m; parallel; parts; plane; point; pole; right; s s; shadow; sine; south; style; sun; verticall; west; world
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: A96930
      author: Worgan, John, surveyor.
       title: The use of the universal ring-dial.
        date: 1696
       words: 1225
      flesch: 69
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A96930) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 173032)
    keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: B06166
      author: Tompion, Thomas, 1639-1713.
       title: A table of the equation of days, shewing how much a good pendulum watch ought to be faster or slower than a true sun-dial, every day of the year.
        date: 1683
       words: 1813
      flesch: 75
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180055)
    keywords: sec; tcp; watch
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