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• Mechanick dialling, or, the New art of shadows : freed from the many obscurities, superfluities and errors of former writers upon this subject : the whole laid down after so plain a method that any person (tho' a stranger to the art) with a pair of compasses and common rules only, may make a dial upon any plane for any place in the world, as well as those who have attained to the greatest knowledge and perfection in the mathematicks : illustrated with many copper plates, and examples of dials for London, Exeter, Bristol, Worcester, Oxford, Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, Chester, Liverpool, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham, Edinburgh, Dublin, &c. : to which are added, 1. A choice collection of mottos in Latin and English : 2. A new and correct alphabetical table of the most eminent cities, towns, in the whole world; shewing the elevation of the Pole, and the difference of their meridian from London : 3. The best and most approved methods of painting sun dials : a work not only useful for artificers, but very entertaining for gentlemen, and those students at the universities, that would understand dialling, without the trouble of going through a course of mathematics / by Charles Leadbetter, teacher of the mathematics in London.
  by: Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.
  Published: (1737)
• Leybourn's Dialling improv'd; or, the whole art perform'd, I. geometrically ... II. arithmetically ... Also, how to describe all necessary furniture for sun-dials ... With reflective dialling ... To which is now added, instrumental dialling ... and likewise mechanick dialling ... with the manner of ordering oyl and colours for painting sun-dials. Concluding with tables ... By Henry Wilson.
  by: Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
  Published: (1728)
• Dialling, plain, concave, convex, projective, reflective, refractive. Shewing, how to make all such dials, and to adorn them with all useful furniture relating to the course of the sun; performed arithmetically, geometrically, instrumentally and mechanically: and illustrated with sculptures, engraven in copper. Comprised in XIV. distinct tractates... 2d ed. corrected, and two new tractates added. Collected, methodised, and published, by William Leybourn.
  by: Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
  Published: (1700)
• Mechanick dyalling teaching any man, though of an ordinary capacity and unlearned in the mathematicks, 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 / by Joseph Moxon ...
  by: Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.
  Published: (2005)
• The whole art of reflex dialling. Shewing the way to make all manner of dials which shall shew the houre by a spot of light reflected from a glasse upon any cieling whether it be flat or curved, or any other way irregular ... Published by Anthony Thompson.
  by: Thompson, Anthony, active 1658.
  Published: (1658)