Posthuma Fosteri: the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales : and the vses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usuall propositions 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 severall wayes. With the deliniating of all horizontall dials, between 30, and 60 gr of latitude, without drawing any lines but the houres themselves.
1652
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Title
Posthuma Fosteri: the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales : and the vses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usuall propositions 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 severall wayes. With the deliniating of all horizontall dials, between 30, and 60 gr of latitude, without drawing any lines but the houres themselves.
Created/published
London : Printed by Robert and William Leybourn, for Nicholas Bourn, at the South entrance into the Royall Exchange, 1652.
Description
[8], 80, [2] p. : ill. diagrams, tables ; (4to)
Associated name
Note
Annotation on Thomason copy: "7ber [i.e. September] 14".
Signatures: A-L⁴ M1.
Signatures: A-L⁴ M1.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE blg title has faint period after "gr", line 21 ; line 9, "vses" shd be transcribed "uses"
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), F1635
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.675[1]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R206743
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.675[1]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R206743
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
153- 618.2q
Folger-specific note
153618.2. Manuscript markings on final fly-leaf. Bound with: Gunter, Edmund. The vvorks ... (London, 1653; Wing G2239). Provenance: inscribed on t.p.: "AFletcher" (accession slip says "Andrew Fletcher" [Scottish patriot, 1655-1716?] but qu.: Abraham Fletcher, mathematician?), "RFletcher"; bought by Folger from Robinson