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Auction 53
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53-3723 Foster,S.
Posthuma Fosteri: The description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the uses thereof...By which the most usuall proportions in astronomie, navigation, and dialling, are facily performed. Also, a further use of the said scales in deliniating of far declining dials; and of those that decline and recline, three several ways...London, Leybourn 1652. Mit zahlr. Textholzschn. 4 Bl. (davon 1 fragment. erhalten), 80 S., 1 Bl. Mod. Ldr.
Samuel Foster war Prof. der Astronomie im Gresham-Colledge. - "This book was published posthumously in the year that Foster died. It describes a ruler with 9 scales and gives instructions on how to use the scales to solve many of the standard problems of "astronomie, navigation, and dialling". In addition to familiar trigonometric scales, the ruler includes two new scales introduced by Foster. The first provides an easy means of laying out horizontal dials between 30º and 60º of latitude without having to draw any auxiliary lines. The second is an innovation that Foster identifies simply as the c scale. With this scale and a chord scale, Foster is able to find all the elements needed to draw a dial on an arbitrary plane. He also uses these scales to replace the usual dialing scales, laying out a sundial from equispaced points on the circumference of a circle. (By reversing this process, a sundial that uses a standard clock face can be designed). - Durchgeh. etw. knapp beschnitten, gebr. u. stockfleckig. Tit. etw. angestaubt. Bl. 4 mit Randabschnitt, Textverlust. Tls. etw. wasserrandig im Gelenk. Exlibris.
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