Wybard, John. Horologiographia nocturna. Or Lunar horologiographie. : Set forth and demonstrated (after a twofold manner) in the horizontall plane onely. Vpon which (and all other by the same reason) may in a manner, as plainely and speedily bee discerned the times of the night by the gnomonicall shadow, caused by the moone, as the times of the day upon any by the sun: serving as well in the day time for the sunne. By Iohn Wyberd. Together with an addition of certaine new and briefe rules for the exact and most speedy mensuration of circles and spheres, and also cylinders, both in solid and liquid measure, by certaine plaine scales onely, not heretofore published, but now set forth for the benefit of all those that have occasion to make use of such things

Folger bibliographic ID: 168542
STC number: 26056
ESTC number: S120439
Folger call number: STC 26056
Folger holdings ID: 163495

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General notes

The "plates" are woodcuts With a final errata leaf Signatures: A-D⁴

Item information about Folger STC 26056

182541. Disbound. Provenance: bought by the Folger from Francis Edwards' Bute sale, July 1961, lot 370

Extended title: Horologiographia nocturna. Or Lunar horologiographie. : Set forth and demonstrated (after a twofold manner) in the horizontall plane onely. Vpon which (and all other by the same reason) may in a manner, as plainely and speedily bee discerned the times of the night by the gnomonicall shadow, caused by the moone, as the times of the day upon any by the sun: serving as well in the day time for the sunne. By Iohn Wyberd. Together with an addition of certaine new and briefe rules for the exact and most speedy mensuration of circles and spheres, and also cylinders, both in solid and liquid measure, by certaine plaine scales onely, not heretofore published, but now set forth for the benefit of all those that have occasion to make use of such things
Alternate titles: Horologiographia nocturna, Lunar horologiographie

Dialing

author: Wybard, John
printer: Cotes, Thomas, -1641