Description and use of the trianguler-quadrant

Folger bibliographic ID: 137131
ESTC number: R17803
Wing number: B5042
Folger call number: Film Acc. 627
Folger holdings ID: 188948

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

The frontispiece is signed: R:G "An appendix to the use of the trianguler-quadrant in navigation" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous The first part, "The description and use of the trianguler-quadrant" was published in the same year Signatures: A-T⁸ V⁴

Uniform title: Description and use of the trianguler-quadrant. Part 2
Extended title: Horologiographia: or, The art of dyalling : being the second book of the use of the trianguler-quadrant. Shewing the natural, artificial, and instrumental way, of making of sun-dials, on any flat superficies: with plain and easie directions, to discover their nature and affections, by the horizontal projection. With the way of drawing the usual ornaments on any plain: also, a familiar easie way to draw those lines on the ceiling of a room, by the trianguler quadrant. Also, the use of the same instrument in navigation; both for observation, and operation. Performing the use of several sea-instruments still in use. By John Brown, philomath
Alternate titles: Art of dyalling, Appendix to the use of the trianguler-quadrant in navigation

Dialing Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)

author: Brown, John (Philomath)
printmaker: R. G.