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The description of a plain instrument that with much ease and exactness will…

Published: 1668
Length: 3,470 words
Reading: 15 min
Divisions: 20

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The description of a plain instrument that with much ease and exactness will discover the situation of any vertical plane, howsoever inclining, reclining, or declining and how to draw a dyal upon any such plane or upon the face of any vertical body, how irregular soever : together with several other things requisite to the art of dyaling / by A. M.

London Printed for J. Coniers 1668.

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UsesThe uſe of the aforeſaid Instrument.
Application1. To draw an horizontal line,
Application2. To draw a perpendicular line
Application3. To draw a meridian line.
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Application6. To find the unknown latitude of a place, the hour being given.
Application7. To find the inclination or reclination of a plane.
Application8, To find the declination of a Plane.
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Application9. To draw a true Dial ſpeedily, without skill in the Mathematicks, upon any erect plain, or irregular face…
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Application10. To draw a true Dyal ſpeedily upon any erect plane ſituated more Northerly than the Eaſt or Weſt point,…
Application11. To draw a Meridian Dyal upon an Eaſt or Weſt plane.
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Application12. To draw an Horizontal Dyal upon its own plane.
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