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• Gnomonique pratique (Chez Briasson, 1760), by François Bedos de Celles and Louis Bernard Gazet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnomonique graphique, ou, Méthode simple et facile pour tracer les cadrans solaires sur toutes sortes de plans, en ne faisant usage que de la règle et du compas : suivie de la Gnomonique analytique, ou, Solution par la seule analyse, de ce problème général, Trouver les intersections des cercles horaires avec une surface donnée (Bachelier, 1837), by Joseph Mollet (page images at HathiTrust)
• De gli horologi solari nelle svperficie piane (Per Giacomo Lantoni, 1614), by Muzio Oddi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maniére universelle pour poser l'essieu. English (London : Printed by Tho. Leach, and are to be sold by Isaac Pridmore ..., 1659), by Gérard Desargues, Daniel King, and Abraham Bosse (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The description and use of a joynt-rule fitted with lines for the finding the hour of the day and azimuth of the sun, to any particular latitude, or, to apply the same generally to any latitude : together with all the uses of Gunters quadrant applyed thereunto ... / contriv'd & written by J. Brown, philomath. (London : Printed by T.J. for J. Brown and H. Sutton, and sold at their houses, 1661), by John Brown (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The triangular quadrant, or, The quadrant on a sector being a general instrument for land or sea observations : performing all the uses of the ordinary sea instruments, as Davis quadrant, forestaff, crosstaff, bow, with more ease, profitableness, and conveniency, and as much exactness as any or all of them : moreover, it may be made a particular and a general quadrant for all latitudes, and have the sector lines also : to which is added a rectifying table to find the suns true declination to a minute or two, any day or hour of the 4 years : whereby to find the latitude of a place by meridian, or any two other altitudes of the sun or stars / first thus contrived and made by John Brown ... ([London] : To be sold at [his, i.e. Brown's] house, or at Hen. Sutton's ..., 1662), by John Brown (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dialling performed instrumentally by our hemisphere in plane projected and first fitted by Mr. William Oughtred and laid down according to his method formerly published for this very subject : together with twentie one several diagrams or schemes demonstratively shewing the reason and ground-work of all dialling, as also how to know, distinguish and set down the hour-lines for both faces of all planes at one working / by a practitioner in the same art. (London : Printed by William du-Gard and are to bee sold by William Hope, 1652), by William Oughtred (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The description and use of the universall quadrat.: By which is performed, with great expedition, the whole doctrine of triangles, both plain and sphericall, two severall wayes with ease and exactness. Also the resolution of such propositions as are most usefull in astronomie, navigation, and dialling. By which is also performed the proportioning of lines and superficies: the measuring of all manner of land, board, glasse; timber, stone. &c. / By Thomas Stirrup, Philomathemat. (London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Tho. Pierrpont, at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard, 1655), by Thomas Stirrup (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Horometria: or the compleat diallist:: wherein the whole mystery of the art of dialling is plainly taught three several wayes; two of which are performed geometrically by rule and compasse onely: and the third instrumentally, by a quadrant fitted for that purpose. With the working of such propositions of the sphere, as are most usefull in astronomie and navigation, both geometrically and instrumentally. / By Thomas Stirrup, philomath. Whereunto is added an appendix, shewing now the parallels of declination; the Jewish, Babylonish, and Italian houres; the azimuths, almicanters, &c. may be easily inscribed on any diall whatsoever, by rule and compasse onely. Also how to draw a diall on the seeling of a room, by W.L. (London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas Pierrepont, at the Sun in Paul's Chnrch-yard [sic], 1652), by Thomas Stirrup and W. L. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dialling universal:: performed by an easie and most speedy way. Shewing how to describe the hour lines on all sorts of planes whatsoever, and in any latitude. Performed by certaine scales set on a small portable ruler. By G.S. practicioner in the mathematicks. (London : printed by R. and W. Leybourn for Thomas Pierrepont at the signe of the Sun in Pauls Church-yard, 1657), by George Serle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An essay on the use of celestial and terrestrial globes; exemplified in a greater variety of problems, than are to be found in any other work; exhibiting the general principles of dialing & navigation. / By the late George Adams, mathematical instrument maker to His Majesty, and optician to the Prince of Wales. (Whitehall [Pa.]: : Printed for William Young, bookseller and stationer n. 52 South 2d. Street, Philadelphia., 1800), by George Adams, John Draper, and Robert Scot (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The mathematical principles of geography. Containing ... ; [Dialling. Or The Art of Drawing dials, on all sorts of planes whatsoever. : In three parts. ...] (Printed for J. Nourse ..., 1770), by William Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité d'horlogiographie, contenant plusieurs manieres de construire, sur toutes surfaces, toutes sortes de lignes horaires & autres cercles de la sphere. Avec quelques instrumens pour la même pratique, & pour connoître les heures durant la nuit, & l'heure du flux & reflux de la mer ... (L. Plaignard, 1691), by dom Pierre de Sainte Marie Magdelaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horologiographia The art of dialling: teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of dials vpon any plaine plat howsoeuer placed: vvith the drawing of the twelue signes, and houres vnequall in them all. Whereunto is annexed the making and vse of other dials and instruments, whereby the houre of the day and night is knowne. Of speciall vse and delight not onely for students of the arts mathematicall, but also for diuers artificers, architects, surueyours of buildings, free-Masons and others. By T. Fale. (At London : Printed by Thomas Orwin, dwelling in Pater noster-Row ouer against the signe of the Checker, 1593), by Thomas Fale, illust. by Jodocus Hondius (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The art of dialling by a new, easie, and most speedy way. Shewing, how to describe the houre-lines upon all sorts of plaines, howsoever, or in what latitude soever scituated: as also, to find the suns azimuth, whereby the sight of any plaine is examined. Performed by a quadrant, fitted with lines necessary to the purpose. Invented and published by Samuel Foster, professor of astronomie in Gresham Colledge. (London : Printed by Iohn Dawson for Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, 1638), by Samuel Foster (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A plain declaration of the vulgar new heavens flatform serving not onely fore this age, but also fore the future age of 100 years. ([London? : s.n., 1679]), by Edmond Halley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The semicircle on a sector in two books. Containing the description of a general and portable instrument; whereby most problems (reducible to instrumental practice) in astronomy, trigonometry, arithmetick, geometry, geography, topography, navigation, dyalling, &c. are speedily and exactly resolved. By J. T. (London : printed for William Tompson, bookseller at Harborough in Leicestershire, 1667), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Arte of dialing (London : Printed by Iohn Beale for William Welby, 1614), by Edward Wright (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Speculum nauticum A looking-glasse for sea-men. Wherein they may behold, how by a small instrument, called the plain-scale, all nautical questions, and astronomical propositions, are very easily and demonstratively performed. First set down by John Aspley, student in physick, and practitioner of the mathematicks in London. The sixth edition. Whereunto are added, many new propositions in navigation and astronomy, and also a third book, shewing a new way of dialling. By H.P. and W.L. (London : printed by W. Leybourn, for George Harlock, and are to be sold at his shop at Magnus Church-Corner, in Thames Street, near London-Bridge, 1662), by John Aspley, H. P., and 17th cent W. L. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A nevv quadrant, of more naturall, easie, and manifold performance, than any other heretofore extant framed according to the horizontall projection of the sphere, with the uses thereof. By C.B. maker of mathematic instruments in metall. (London : [s.n.], printed in the yeare 1649), by Christopher Brookes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The description and use of the trianguler quadrant being a particular and general instrument, useful at land or sea, both for observation and operation : more universally useful, portable and convenient, than any other yet discovered, with its uses in arithmetick, geometry, superficial and solid, astronomy, dyalling, three wayes, gaging, navigation, in a method not before used / by John Brown, philomath. (London : Printed by John Darby, for John Wingfield, and are to be sold at his house ... and by John Brown ... and by John Sellers ..., 1671), by John Brown (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Horologiographia, or, The art of dyalling being the second book of the use of the trianguler-quadrant : shewing the natural, artificial, and instrumental way, of making of sun-dials, on any flat superficies, with plain and easie directions, to discover their nature and affections, by the horizontal projection : with the way of drawing the usual ornaments on any plain : also, a familiar easie way to draw those lines on the ceiling of a room, by the trianguler quadrant : also, the use of the same instrument in navigation, both for observation, and operation : performing the use of several sea-instruments still in use / by John Brown, philomath. (London : Printed by John Darby, for John Wingfield ... and by John Brown ... and by John Seller ..., 1671), by John Brown (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Geometrical dyalling, or, Dyalling performed by a line of chords onely, or by the plain scale wherein is contained two several methods of inscribing the hour-lines in all plains, with the substile, stile and meridian, in their proper coasts and quantities : being a full explication and demonstration of divers difficulties in the works of learned Mr. Samuel Foster deceased ... : whereto is added four new methods of calculation, for finding the requisites in all leaning plains ... : also how by projecting the sphere, to measure off all the arks found by calculation ... : lastly, the making of dyals from three shadows of a gnomon ... / written by John Collins ... (London : Printed by Thomas Johnson for Francis Cossines and are to be sold at his shop ... :, also to be sold by Henry Sutton ..., 1659), by John Collins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The sector on a quadrant, or A treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular. Each of them accomodated for dyalling; for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally; and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe. Of great use to seamen and practitioners in the mathematicks. Written by John Collins accountant philomath. Also An appendix touching reflected dyalling from a glass placed at any reclination. (London : printed by J.M. for George Hurlock at Magnus Corner, Thomas Pierrepont, at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard; William Fisher, at the Postern near Tower-Hill, book-sellers; and Henry Sutton, mathematical instrument-maker, at his house in Thred-needle street, behind the Exchange. With paper prints of each quadrant, either loose or pasted upon boards; to be sold at the respective places aforesaid, 1659), by John Collins, John Lyon, and Henry Sutton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Horlogiographia optica. Dialling universall and particular: speculative and practicall. In a threefold præcognita, viz. geometricall, philosophicall, and astronomicall: and a threefold practise, viz. arithmeticall, geometricall, and instrumentall. With diverse propositions of the use and benefit of shadows, serving to prick down the signes, declination, and azimuths, on sun-dials, and diverse other benefits. Illustrated by diverse opticall conceits, taken out of Augilonius, Kercherius, Clavius, and others. Lastly, topothesia, or, a feigned description of the court of art. Full of benefit for the making of dials, use of the globes, difference of meridians, and most propositions of astronomie. Together with many usefull instruments and dials in brasse, made by Walter Hayes, at the Crosse Daggers in More Fields. / Written by Silvanus Morgan. (London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Andrew Kemb, and Robert Boydell, and are to be sold at St. Margarets Hill in Southwark, and at the Bulwark neer the Tower, 1652), by Sylvanus Morgan and John Goddard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The poor man's dyal· With an instrument to set it. Made applicable to any place in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. By Sir Samuel Morland knight and baronet. 1689. ([S.l.] : And are to be sold at all the button-sellers, cutlers and toyshops about the town. And will be shortly publisht in several other ... and dimensions, for the good of the publick, and for the con... of the manufacture of our nation, [1689]), by Samuel Morland (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An explication of the diall sett up in the Kings garden at London, an. 1669 in which very many sorts of dyalls are conteined : by which, besides the houres of all kinds diversly expressed, many things also belonging to geography, astrology, and astronomy, are by the sunnes shadow made visible to the eye, amongst which very many dialls, especially the most curious, are new inventions, hitherto divulged by none : all these particulars are shortly, yet clearly sett forth for the common good / by the Reverend Father Francis Hall, otherwise Line, of the Society of Jesus, professor of mathematicks. (Printed at Liege : By Guillaume Henry Streel, 1673), by Francis Line (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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), by Adam Martindale (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Horometria: or The compleat diallist. Wherein the whole mystery of the art of dialling is plainly taught three several wayes; two of which are performed geometrically by rule and compass onely: and the third instrumentally, by a quadrant fitted for that purpose. With the working of such propositions of the sphere, as are most usefull in astronomy and navigation ... By Thomas Stirrup, philomath. Whereunto is added an appendix, shewing how the parallels of declination; the Jewish, Babylonish, & Italian houres; the azimuths, almicanters, &c. may be easily inscribed on any dial whatsoever, by rule and compasse onely. And to draw a diall on the seeling of a room, by W. Leybourn. Also, Dialling Vniversal, performed by an easie and most speedy way, ... by certain scales set on a small portable ruler, by G.S. practitioner in the mathematicks. (London : printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas Pierrepont, at the Sun in Paul's Church-yard, 1659 [i.e.1658]), by Thomas Stirrup, William Leybourn, and George. Dialling universal Serle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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. (London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1639), by John Wybard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The mathematical ievvel shewing the making, and most excellent vse of a singuler instrument so called: in that it performeth with wonderfull dexteritie, whatsoeuer is to be done, either by quadrant, ship, circle, cylinder, ring, dyall, horoscope, astrolabe, sphere, globe, or any such like heretofore deuised: ... The vse of which iewel, is so aboundant and ample, that it leadeth any man practising thereon, the direct pathway ... through the whole artes of astronomy, cosmography, ... and briefely of whatsoeuer concerneth the globe or sphere: ... The most part newly founde out by the author, compiled and published ... by Iohn Blagraue of Reading gentleman and well willer to the mathematickes, who hath cut all the prints or pictures of the whole worke with his owne hands. 1585. (Imprinted at London : by Walter Venge, dwelling in Fleetelane ouer against the Maiden head, [1585]), by John Blagrave (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Art of dialling (London : Printed by S.G. and B.G for Benjamin Tooke and Thomas Sawbridge ..., [1669]), by William Leybourn (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The Book of Sun-Dials (4th edition; London: George Bell and Sons, 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, ed. by Horatia K. F. Gatty Eden and Eleanor Lloyd (HTML and page images at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights Which are Here Displayed in Very Truth and are Moreover Regarded as Emblems (New York and London: Macmillan, 1922), by Alice Morse Earle
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• Über Sonnenuhren: Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte und Konstruktion, nebst Aufstellung einer Fehlertheorie (in German; Graz, Austria: Leuschner und Lubensky, 1906), by Hans Löschner (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903), ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt, contrib. by Alice Meynell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oeuvres de Desargues réunies et analysées (Leiber, 1864), by Gérard Desargues, Noël Germinal Poudra, and Abraham Bosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnomonices biformis, geometricæ, scilicet, & arithmeticæ synopsis, : in quatuor partes diuisa. : Quarum quælibet est completus gnomonicæ tractatus, ad vsum totius orbis terrarum ... Opvscvlvm matheseos candidatis perutile ... (typis A. Bosij, 1679), by Agostino Dal Pozzo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horographia trigonometrica, seu Methodus accuratissima arithmetice per sinus et tangentes, horologia quaevis solaria in plano stabili qualitercunque situato, etiam declinante & simul inclinato, facili negotiô describendi, & quaedam alia, quae vialia dicuntur &c. cum suis fundamentis & rationibus in gratiam aliorum exhibita (typis Wolffgangi Wickhart, 1718), by Bernhard Gruber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recreations perspectives et essaisdes nouveaus cabinets des berceaus, cages, ou volieres artificieles, et attiques des jardinages ... (J. C. Weigels, 1732), by Johann Jacob Schübler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanick exercises : or, The doctrine of handy-works ; applied to the arts of smithing, joinery, carpentry, turning, bricklayery ; to which is added, Mechanick dyalling: shewing how 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. (Printed for D. Midwinter and T. Leigh..., 1703), by Joseph Moxon and Teyla Branton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité élémentaire d'astronomie physique. (J. Klostermann fils; [etc., etc.], 1810), by Jean-Baptiste Biot, Élisabeth Paul Édouard de Rossel, Pierre Simon Laplace, and Armand Berroyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• La manière vniverselle de Mr. Desargves, Lyonnois. (De l'impr. de P. Des-Hayes, 1643), by Gérard Desargues and Abraham Bosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of sun-dials; originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty; now enl. and re-edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd. (G. Bell, 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Eleanor Lloyd, H. K. F. Eden, and Lewis Evans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mariner's magazine; or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts. Containing, the description and use of the scale of scales; it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions: and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators ... (Printed by E. Cotes for G. Hurlock [etc.], 1669), by Samuel Sturmy and Philip Stanyerd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics pneumatics, and optics. With the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses (Printed for W. Strahan [etc.], 1776), by James Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ferguson's Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy and dialing. With notes and an appendix adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences (Printed for Bell & Bradfute, J. Fairbairn; [etc., etc.], 1806), by James Ferguson, Robert Patterson, and David Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ferguson's Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy and dialling. A new edition corrected and enlarged, with notes and an appendix adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences (Printed for and published by M. Carey, 1814), by James Ferguson, Robert Patterson, and David Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to astronomy, geography, navigation and other mathematical sciences, made easie by the description and uses of the coelestial and terrestrial globes ... And also, the description and use of maps and charts both general and particular (Printed for R. Morden [etc.], 1702), by William Leybourn and Robert Morden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young gentleman's astronomy, chronology, and dialling : containing such elements of the said arts or sciences, as are most useful and easy to be known (Printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton, 1736), by Edward Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibit of early astronomical and mathematical instruments. (Museums of the peaceful arts, 1930), by New York. Museum of science and industry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traitté d'horlogiographie, contenant plvsievrs manieres de construire, sur toutes surfaces, toutes sortes de lignes horaires: & autres cercles de la sphere. Avec qvelqves instrvmens pour la mesme pratique, & pour connoistre les heures durant la nuict: & l'heure du flus & reflus de la mer ... (Chez Iean Dvpvis, 1665), by Pierre de Sainte Marie Madeleine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ioannis Padvanii veronensis De compositione, & vsu multiformium horolo-giorum solarium ad omnes totius orbis regiones, ac fitus in qualibet superficie : opus nunc denuo ab ipfo multis in locis illu-stratum, & auctum. Adiectæ funt præterea peculiares methodi ad dignofcen-da ftellarum loca, & fupputandas quafcunque ta-bulas, tàm per minutiffimum calculum, quàm per inftrumentum nunquam hactenus ab vilo excogitate. [Printer's mark] (Apud Franciscum, Franciscium Senenfem, 1582), by Giovanni Padovani (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of sun-dials (G. Bell, 1890), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Eleanor Lloyd, and H. K. F. Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sundials, incised dials or mass-clocks; a study of the time-markers of medieval churches, containing descriptions, photographs, diagrams and analysis of dials, chiefly in Hampshire, but also in various other counties (Society for promoting Christian knowledge: New York and Toronto, The Macmillan co., 1926), by Arthur Robert Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ye sundial booke (E. Arnold, 1914), by T. Geoffrey W. Henslow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Svn dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in very trvth and are moreover regarded as emblems (The Macmillan co., 1902), by Alice Morse Earle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trattenimenti matematici, i quali comprendono copiose tavole horarie per gli orologj a sole, orizzontali, verticali, riflessi, e portatili per tutte l'altezze del polo, e per tutte le sorti d'hore, con una breve notizia pratica della geometria, e trigonometria sferica, e piana, con diversi quesiti, e problemi astronomici, e del calendario ecclesiastico, i quali facilmente si sciolgono con le tavole de' logaritmi (Zenobj, 1730), by Domenico Luchini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Risālah fī rasm al-munḥarifāt : manuscript, [1882]. (1882), by Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
• Risālah ʻaẓīmah fī al-munḥarifāt : manuscript, [19th century?]. (in the 19th century), by Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling (Stirling & Slade, and Bell & Bradfute, 1823), by James Ferguson and David Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carpintería de lo blanco y tratado de alarifes y de relojes de sol. (Hijos de R. Alvarez, 1912), by Diego López de Arenas, Eduardo de Mariátegui, Santiago Rodríguez de Villafañe, and Guillermo Sánchez Lefler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Wetter von Bamberg. Alte Sonnenuhren an Bamberger Gebäden. ([Bamberg?, 1929), by Ernst Zinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sun dials and roses of yesterday : garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (The Macmillan Co.;, 1902), by Alice Morse Earle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sundials. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1933), by Ralph Edgar Gould and United States. National Bureau of Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnomonique pratique (Chez Briasson, 1760), by François Bedos de Celles and Louis Bernard Gazet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnomonique graphique, ou, Méthode simple et facile pour tracer les cadrans solaires sur toutes sortes de plans, en ne faisant usage que de la règle et du compas : suivie de la Gnomonique analytique, ou, Solution par la seule analyse, de ce problème général, Trouver les intersections des cercles horaires avec une surface donnée (Bachelier, 1837), by Joseph Mollet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plates illustrating a new edition of Ferguson's Lectures (M. Carey, 1814), by James Ferguson and David Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, and astronomy (Printed for T. Tegg, 1839), by James Ferguson and Charles Frederick Partington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gasparis Aloysii Oderici Genuensis e Societate Jesu Dissertationes et adnotationes in aliquot ineditas veterum inscriptiones et numismata : accedunt inscriptiones et monumenta quae extant in bibliotheca monachorum Camaldulensium S. Gregorii in Monte Coelio explicationes illustrata. (Typis Francisci Bizzarrini Komarek ; sumptibus Venantii Monaldini bibliopolae, 1765), by Gaspare Luigi Oderico and François Jacquier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brevissimum planimetriae compendium. (Ex officina Gregeriana, sumptibus editoris, 1903), by Tycho Brahe and F. J. Studnička (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of old sundials & their mottoes (T.N. Foulis, 1917), by Warrington Hogg, Alfred Rawlings, and Launcelot Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cadrans solaires (Impr. Gauthier-Villars, 1905), by Abel A. Souchon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics ; with the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses. With the supplement (Printed for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, L. Hawes, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, Robinson and Roberts, and T. Cadell ;, 1770), by James Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and optics. : With the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses. (Printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Longman, B. Law ... [and 6 others], 1784), by James Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les cadrans solaires tourangeaux. (Péricat, 1922), by Louis Dubreuil-Chambardel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De gli horologi solari nelle svperficie piane (Per Giacomo Lantoni, 1614), by Muzio Oddi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uber den Gnomonschatten und die Schattentafeln der arabischen Astronomie. Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Trigonometrie nach unedierten arabischen Handschriften. (H. Lafaire, 1923), by Carl Schoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sundial in our garden (Trovillion Private Press, 1935), by Violet Trovillion, Hal W. Trovillion, and Trovillion Private Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gnomonique (Mme Thiel ;, 1839), by C. S. F. Livet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of sun-dials (G. Bell and sons, 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Lewis Evans, Eleanor Lloyd, and Horatia K. F. Gatty Eden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dve nvove campane di Campidoglio (Presso Antonio Fulgoni, 1806), by Francesco Cancellieri and Antonio Fulgoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of sun-dials (G. Bell and sons, 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Lewis Evans, Eleanor Lloyd, and Horatia K. F. Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnomonique graphique (Gauthier-Villars, 1865), by Joseph Mollet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnomonica : l'orologio solare a tempo vero nella sua moderna applicazione ... (U. Hoepli, 1915), by G. Bottino-Barzizza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveau manuel de gnomonique (au Dépôt des Nouveaux manuels, 1837), by M. Teyssèdre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics and astronomy. (Printed for T. Tegg, 1837), by James Ferguson and Charles Frederick Partington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations of Tracts on the Greek-Egyptian sun-dial with seven steps, etc., being the second and third series of illustrations for Tracts on Christianity in its relation to Judaism and heathenism, etc., etc. (Simpkin, 1870), by William Hewson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of sun-dials (Bell, 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Eleanor Lloyd, and H. K. F. Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnomonique graphique et analytique; ou, L'art de tracer les cadrans solaires. (Bachelier, 1846), by Jean Pierre Born (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primitive sun dials or scratch dials; containing a list of those in Somerset (Barnicott & Pearce, 1917), by Percy Ethelbert Horne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georg Michaelis Gründliche vortheile allerhand arten von sonnen-uhren zu verfertigen, nebst verschiedenen angenehmen erfindungen ... (J.R. Crökers seel. wittwe, 1738), by Georg Michaelis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendio mathematico, en que se contienen todas las materias más principales de las ciencias, que tratan de la cantidad. (J. Garcia, 1757), by Tomás Vicente Tosca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arabische gnomonik... (Hammerich & Lesser, 1913), by Karl Schoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sundials : the Pyghtle works, Bedford. (John P. White & Sons, 1919), by John P. White & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuale di vari ornamenti tratti dalle fabbriche, e frammenti antichi (Per il Casaletti, 1781), by Carlo Antonini (page images at HathiTrust)
• D'una antica villa scoperta sul dosso de Tusculo, e d' un' antico orologio a sole tra le rovine della medesima ritrovata : dissertazioni due (Appresso Modesto Fenzo, 1746), by Giovanni Luca Zuzzeri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of sundials. (G. Bell, 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty and H. K. F. Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art populaire dans le Brianconnais: les cadrans solaires. (Paris, 1901), by Raphaël Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Topography natural history and rural notes (D. Bogue; [etc., etc.], 1882), by George Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A printers' sun dial; being a short description of the dial recently placed in the garden of the Country Life Press. (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913), by Walter Gilliss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über Sonnenuhren : Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte und Konstruktion, nebst Aufstellung einer Fehlertheorie (Leuschner & Lubensky, 1905), by Hans Löschner (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de tracer les cadrans solaires, a l'usage des instituteurs et des personnes qui savant manier la règle et le compas ... (Guathier-Villars, 1884), by A. Mahistre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gnomonique graphique, ou Me̲thode simple et facile pour tracer les cadrans solaires sur toute sorte de plans, sans aucun calcul, et en ne faisant usage que de la re̲gle et du compas; suivie de quelques proble̲mes curieux, relatifs aux surfaces sphe̲rique et cylindrique. (Mme V. Comcier, 1815), by Joseph Mollet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Geschichte der Zeitmessung und der Uhren (De Gruyter, 1920), by Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of sun-dials (G. Bell, 1889), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Eleanor Lloyd, and Horatia K. F. Gatty Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poor man's dyal, with an instrument to set it. Made applicable to any place in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. (1886), by Samuel Morland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The timepiece of shadows : a history of the sun dial (W.T. Comstock, 1895), by Henry Spencer Spackman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations of Tracts on the Greek-Egyptian sun-dial with seven steps, etc. being the second and third series of illustrations for Tracts on Christianity in its relation to Judaism and heathenism, etc., etc. (Simpkin, 1870), by William Hewson (page images at HathiTrust)
• El cuadrante solar de Trouville. ([Imp. "El Siglo Ilustrado"], 1926), by Alberto Reyes Thévenet (page images at HathiTrust)
• El cuadrante solar de San Pedro de Timote; tratado de gnomónica. (Imp. "El Siglo Ilustrado", 1926), by Alberto Reyes Thévenet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apollonius Cattus, oder, Kern der gantzen Geometriæ in drey Theil (In Verlegung J. Ingebrands;, 1684), by Benjamin Bramer, Johannes Ingebrandt, and Jost Bürgi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of old sundials & their mottoes (T. N. Foulis, 1914), by Warrington Hogg, Alfred Rawlings, and Launcelot Cross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics : with the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses : with the supplement (Printed for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, [and 7 others], 1772), by James Ferguson and James Mynde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanical work in garden and greenhouse (Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1893), by Francis Chilton-Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Costruzioni geometriche dell'orologio solare sopra un piano qualunque (Coi Tipi di G.B. Bianchi e c., 1834), by Giovanni Astolfi, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perspectiva horaria, sive, De horographia gnomonica tvm theoretica, tvm practica libri qvatvor (Typis & expenses Philippi Rubei, 1648), by Emmanuel Maignan, Filippo de' Rossi, Filippo Gagliardi, Claude Goyrand, P. Guerin, and I. P. Cecchone (page images at HathiTrust)
• En svensk solskifva med runinskrift. (P.A. Norstedt, 1877), by George Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della fabrica ed vso di vn novo stromento ... (Appresso Gratioso Perchacino, 1590), by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tratado elemental de relojes solares (Imprenta de M. Soler y Gelada, 1851), by José Hernández y Jiménez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and optics. With the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses. (Printed for J. Johnson ..., 1799), by James Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helio-tropes; or, New posies for sundials, written in an old book partly in English and partly in Latin and expounded in English (Methuen, 1903), by John Parmenter and Perceval Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ye Sundial Booke, by T. Geoffrey W. Henslow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Maniére universelle pour poser l'essieu. English (London : Printed by Tho. Leach, and are to be sold by Isaac Pridmore ..., 1659), by Gérard Desargues, Daniel King, and Abraham Bosse (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Elliptical or azimuthal horologiography comprehending severall wayes of describing dials upon all kindes of superficies, either plain or curved, and unto upright stiles in whatsoever position they shall be placed / invented and demonstrated by Samuel Foster ... (London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn for Nicholas Bourn ..., 1654), by Samuel Foster, John Twysden, and Edmund Wingate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The art of painting wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting, according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours, not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work ... / composed by John Smith, philomath. (London : Printed for Samuel Crouch ..., 1676), by John Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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 ... (London : Printed for Joseph Moxon ..., 1668), by Joseph Moxon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Institutio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. English (London : Printed for Joseph Moxen, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1654), by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An introduction to astronomy and geography being a plain and easie treatise of the globes : in VII parts ... / by William Leybourn. (London : Printed by J.C. for Robert Morden and William Berry ..., 1675), by William Leybourn (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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