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The double-headed eagle, representing the Holy Roman Empire, stands on a bobbin holding in its wings the outer sphere of the universe showing the elements of time from which the world is made: months, days, planets, signs of the zodiac, etc. Engraving by P. Miotte.
Date: [1646]Reference: 46390i
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Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials. On plain and easy principles. With several miscellaneous articles, and new tables. I, for expeditiously computing the time of any new or full moon within ... 6,000 years before and after the 18th century ... II. For graduating and examining the usual lines ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author / by James Ferguson.
James FergusonDate: 1778- Pictures
Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.
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Mechanick exercises or the doctrine of handy-works. Applied to the arts of smithing joinery carpentry turning bricklayery. To which is added Mechanick dyalling: Shewing how 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. The third edition. By Joseph Moxon, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Hydrographer to the late King Charles.
Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.Date: 1703- Books
Gvilielmi Blaev Institvtio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. Dvabvs partibvs adornata, vna, secundum hypothesin Ptolemæi, per terram quiescentem / Altera, juxta mentem N. Copernici, per terram mobilem. Latinè reddita à M. Hortensio.
Willem BlaeuDate: 1668