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The art of dialling : by a new, easie, and most speedy way. Shewing, how to describe the houre-lines upon all sorts of plaines, howsoever, or in what latitude soever scituated: as also, to find the suns azimuth, whereby the sight of any plaine is examined. Performed by a quadrant, fitted with lines necessary to the purpose

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1638.
Call number: 59528
Creator: Foster, Samuel (-1652)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
Associated people: Dawson, John,; Eglesfield, Francis,
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