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Leybourn, William, 1626-1716 · 1700 · London : T. Braddyll · 27 pictures

A 1700 London treatise by William Leybourn, a mathematician, on sundial construction, printed by T. Braddyll for a general audience of instrument makers and students. The pictures are geometric diagrams of celestial circles, meridians and sun paths drawn as dotted and solid lines over a plain circle, with lettered points and no shading, so a designer can borrow their clean compass-and-rule linework and radiating construction structure.

Dialing · Mathematical instruments · Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) · Sundials

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