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Filed under: Nautical astronomy -- Early works to 1800- Nouveau traité de navigation : contenant la théorie et la pratique de pilotage (Chez la veuve Desaint, 1781), by M. Bouguer and Nicolas Louis de La Caille (page images at HathiTrust)
- Verhandeling over het bepaalen der lengte op zee, door de afstanden van de maan tot de zon, of vaste sterren : voormals opgesteld door Commissarissen van het gewezen Collegie ter admiraliteit, te Amsterdam, tot de zaken, hot bepaalen der lengte op zee en de verbeetering der zeekaarten betreffende (G. Hulst van Keulen, 1796), by Jan Hendrik van Swinden (page images at HathiTrust)
- Observaciones astronomicas, y phisicas; hechas de orden de S. Mag. en los reynos del Perù. (Impresso de orden del rey nuestro señor, por J. de Zuñiga, 1748), by Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa (page images at HathiTrust)
- Posthuma Fosteri the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the uses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usual propositions in astronomy, 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. (London : printed by Robert & William Leybourn, for Nicholas Bourn, at the South entrance into the Royall Exchange, 1654), by Samuel Foster (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)
- The newe attractiue Containyng a short discourse of the magnes or lodestone, and amongest other his vertues, of a newe discouered secret and subtill propertie, concerning the declinyng of the needle, touched therewith under the plaine of the horizon. Now first founde out by Robert Norman hydrographer. Heerevnto are annexed certaine necessarie rules for the art of nauigation by the same R.N. (Imprinted at London : By Ihon Kyngston for Richard Ballard, 1581), by Robert Norman and William Borough (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Newes of the complement of the art of navigation. (At London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1609), by Anthony Linton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Ens fictum Shakerlæi or the annihilation of Mr. Jeremie Shakerley, his in-artificiall anatomy of Urania practica. Wherein his falacies or ignorance, are demonstratively detected his malice in its groundlesse colours display'd, and the authors of the said Urania practica justly vindicated from his unjust aspersions. By Vin. Wing, and Will. Leybourn, philomathematicis. (London : Printed by Robert Leybourn, 1649), by Vincent Wing and William Leybourn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The accomplish'd sea-mans delight containing : 1. The great military of nature demonstrated by art ... 2. The closset of magnetical miracles unlocked ... 3. Directions for sea-men in distress of weather ... 4. The resolver of curiossities being a profitable discourse of local ... (London : Printed for Benj. Harris, 1686) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Nauticum astrologicum (London : printed by Matthew Street, MDCXCVII. [1697]), by John Gadbury (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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Filed under: Night -- Early works to 1800
Filed under: Night in literature -- Early works to 1800Filed under: Space and time -- Early works to 1800- The Tractatus de Successivis, Attributed to William Ockham, Edited with a Study on the Life and Works of Ockham (Franciscan Institute Publications #1; Tractatus in Latin and commentary in English; St. Bonaventure, NY: St. Bonaventure College, 1944), ed. by Philotheus Boehner, contrib. by William of Ockham (page images at HathiTrust)
- Zweifel über die Kantischen Begriffe von Zeit und Raum (Grattenauer, 1788), by Adam Weishaupt (page images at HathiTrust)
- A treatise of the bulk and selvedge of the world wherein the greatness, littleness, and lastingness of bodies are freely handled : with an answer to Tentamine [sic] de Deo by S.P. ... / by N. Fairfax ... (London : Printed for Robert Boulter ..., 1674), by Nathaniel Fairfax (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Filed under: Time in art -- Early works to 1800Filed under: Time measurements -- Early works to 1800- كتاب المقنطرات (1822), by Muvakkit Mustafa bin Ali (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kifāyat al-waqt li-maʻrifat al-dāʼir wa-faḍlih wa-al-samt (1816), by Muvakkit Mustafa bin Ali and fl. 1816 Hacı Hafız Ömer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Vâfîyetü'l-evkât ([Istanbul?, 1790), by Muvakkit Mustafa bin Ali and fl. 1796 Darzade Mehmet bin Abdürrahman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Horologi elementari divisi in qvattro parti (Per Bortolo Tramontino, 1669), by Domenico Martinelli (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tratado general y matemático de reloxería : que comprénde el módo de hacer reloxes de todas clases, y el de saberlos componer y arreglar por difíciles que séan : acompañado de los elemantos necesarios para élla, como son aritmética, geografía, física, maquinária, música y dibúxo : precisos para poseer á fondo el noble árte de la reloxería (En la Imprenta Real, 1789), by Manuel Zerella y Ycoaga and active 18th century Giraldo (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sciothericum telescopicum, or, A new contrivance of adapting a telescope to an horizontal dial for observing the moment of time by day or night useful in all astronomical observations, and for regulating and adjusting curious pendulum-watches and other time-keepers, with proper tables requisite thereto / by William Molyneux ... (Dublin : Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham ..., and are to be sold by W. Norman ..., and S. Helsham and El. Dobson ..., 1686), by William Molyneux (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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Filed under: Geochronometry -- Early works to 1800
Filed under: Horology -- Early works to 1800- Recreations mathematiques et physiques, : qui contiennent plusieurs problêmes d'arithmetique, de geométrie, de musique, d'optique, de gnomonique, de coimographie, de mecanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique. Avec un traité des horloges élémentaires. (Chez C.-A. Jombert, 1725), by Jacques Ozanam (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hādhā kitāb hidāyat ūlī al-baṣāʾir wa-al-abṣār ilá maʻrifat ajzā al-layl wa-al-nahār : manuscript, [1806] (1806), by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad Sujāʻī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ʻAyyād al-Maḥallī, and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fatḥ al-mūqīt fī sharḥ al-yawāqīt : manuscript, [1667]. (1667), by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Dādasī and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kitāb maqāṣid al-ʻawālī bi-qalāyid al-laʾālī fī ʻilm al-mīqāt ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl : manuscript, [early 17th century]. (in the 17th century), by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Rūdānī and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- Taysīr rajazunā al-musammá bi-al-muqniʻ fī ʻilm Abī Miqraʻ : manuscript, [between 1625? and 1809]. (1625), by Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Sūsī Marghīthī and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hādhā kitāb Abū Miqraʻ al-Sūsī ʻalá al-tamām : manuscript, [late 18th or early 19th century?]. (in the 18th century), by Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd al-Sūsī Marghīthī and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hādhā jadwal muqanṭarāt wa-maʻ jadwal mīqāt wa-al-jayb : manuscript, [1761 or 2] (1761), by Ṣāliḥ Afandī Miʻmārī and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wasīlat al-ṭullāb li-maʻrifat aʻmāl al-layl wa-al-nahār bi-ṭarīq al-ḥisāb : manuscript, [between 1525? and 1861]. (1525), by Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad Ḥaṭṭāb and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kifāyat al-ṭālib li-ʻilm al-waqt wa-bughyat al-rāghib fī maʻrifat al-dāyir wa-faḍlihi wa-al-samt : manuscript, [1st half of 18th cent.?] (1700), by Ramaḍān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Safaṭī Khawānikī and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dustūr uṣūl ʻilm al-mīqāt wa-natījat al-naẓar fī taḥrīr al-awqāt : manuscript, [1823]. (1823), by Riḍwān Afandī al-Falakī Razzāz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fa-innī waṣiftu fī hādhā al-kitāb min ʻilm al-awqāt bi-al-ḥisāb mā fīhi kifāyah wa-ghannāhu ʻan jamīʻ al-ālāt al-shuʻāʾīyah wa-al-ẓillīyah : manuscript, [1618]. (1618), by ca. 1330 Abū Miqraʻ al-Baṭṭūwī and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kitāb tafjīr al-anhār khilal rawḍat al-azhār : manuscript, [1635 or 6] (1635), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Qāḍī (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hādhā kitāb hidāyat ūlá al-baṣāyir wa-al-abṣār fī maʻrifat ajzā al-layl wa-al-nahār : manuscript, [1849] (1849), by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad Sujāʻī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ʻAyyād al-Maḥallī, and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wasīlat al-ṭullāb ilá maʻrifat al-awqāt bi-al-ḥisāb : manuscript, [1752 or 3]. (1752), by Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
- [Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb ... etc., between 1126 and 1129, i.e. 1714 to 1717]. (1714), by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn ʻĀmilī, fl. 1726 ʻAlī ibn Muṣṭafá, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Aḥmad ibn Rajab Ibn al-Majdī, and ʻUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Māʼī Chillī (page images at HathiTrust)
- كتاب المقنطرات (1822), by Muvakkit Mustafa bin Ali (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kifāyat al-waqt li-maʻrifat al-dāʼir wa-faḍlih wa-al-samt (1816), by Muvakkit Mustafa bin Ali and fl. 1816 Hacı Hafız Ömer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Vâfîyetü'l-evkât ([Istanbul?, 1790), by Muvakkit Mustafa bin Ali and fl. 1796 Darzade Mehmet bin Abdürrahman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Select mechanical exercises : shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles : with several miscellaneous articles, and new tables ... : to which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author (Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell ... , 1773), by James Ferguson, T. Cadell, William Strahan, Benjamin Franklin, and John Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
- Horologi elementari divisi in qvattro parti (Per Bortolo Tramontino, 1669), by Domenico Martinelli (page images at HathiTrust)
- Horologien, oder Sonnen Uhren, künstliche Beschreibung (In der Officin Henricpetrina, 1579), by Sebastian Münster, Hans Holbein, and Sebastian Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)
- Horologiographia (Excvdebat Henricvs Petrvs, 1533), by Sebastian Münster and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ioannis Paduanii Veronensis Opus de compositione et usu multiformium horologiorum solarium pro diversis mundi regionibus (Apud Franciscum Franciscium Senensem, 1570), by Giovanni Paduani (page images at HathiTrust)
- Della prattica gnomonica libro primo[-terzo] (Per gli eredi di Domenico Barbieri, 1669), by Angelo Maria Colomboni and Eredi di Domenico Barbieri (page images at HathiTrust)
- Nvova scienza di horologi a polvere (Per Pontio Bernardon ..., 1665), by Archangelo Maria Radi, Fabio Di Falco, and Pontio Bernardon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aggiunta di d. Ippolito Salò alle sue tauole gnomoniche (Per Gio. Simbeni, 1626), by Ippolito Salò (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tabulae gnomonicae, nunc denuo castigatae & auctae (Ex typographia Io. Symbenij, 1626), by Ippolito Salò (page images at HathiTrust)
- Recreations mathematiques et physiques : qvi contiennent plusieurs problêmes d'arithmetique, de geometrie, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mecanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique : avec un traité nouveau des horloges elementaires (Chez Jean Jombert ..., 1694), by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Jombert, and Domenico Martinelli (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)
- Rudimenta mathematica (In Officina Henrichi Petri, 1551), by Sebastian Münster and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
- Della fabrica ed vso del novo horologio vniversale ad ogni latitvdine (Appresso Gratioso Perchacino, 1590), by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci (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 general y matemático de reloxería : que comprénde el módo de hacer reloxes de todas clases, y el de saberlos componer y arreglar por difíciles que séan : acompañado de los elemantos necesarios para élla, como son aritmética, geografía, física, maquinária, música y dibúxo : precisos para poseer á fondo el noble árte de la reloxería (En la Imprenta Real, 1789), by Manuel Zerella y Ycoaga and active 18th century Giraldo (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Horological dialogves in three parts shewing the nature, use, and right managing of clocks and watches : with an appendix containing Mr. Ovghtred's method for calculating of numbers : the whole being a work very necessary for all that make use of these kind of movements / by J. S. ... (London : Printed for Jonathan Edwin ..., 1675), by John Smith and William Oughtred (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Horological disquisitions concerning the nature of time, and the reasons why all days, from noon to noon, are not alike twenty four hours long in which appears the impossibility of a clock's being always kept exactly true to the sun : with tables of equation, and newer and better rules ... how thereby precisely to adjust royal pendulums ... : with a table of pendulums, shewing the beats that any length makes in an hour ... / by John Smith ... ; to which is added The best rules for the ordering and use both of the quick-silver and spirit weather-glasses, and Mr. S. Watson's rules for adjusting a clock by the fixed stars. (London : Printed for Richard Cumberland ..., 1694), by John Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Of the unequality of natural time, with its reason and cavses. together with a table of the true æquation of natvral dayes : drawn up chiefly for the use of the gentry, in order to their more true adjusting, and right managing of pendulum clocks, and watches / by John Smith ... (London : Printed for Joseph Watts ..., 1686), by John Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- A Table of the equation of days shewing how much a good pendulum watch ought to be faster or slower than a true sun-dial every day of the year. (London : Printed for Tho. Tompion, clockmaker ..., 1684) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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