A Magic Shadow-Show

A Magic Shadow-Show

Sciatherics 2

ParFrederick Sawyer

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‘Tis nothing but a magic Shadow-show, Play’d in a box whose candle is the Sun. - Omar Khayyam. This is the second in a series of books bringing together articles by Fred Sawyer on the history and theory of dialing. The current book covers 1995-1999. Extreme Hours Of Sunlight, Designing A Nocturnal, Universal Horizontal Dialfaces, Atmospheric Refraction, A Polyhedral Addendum, Canterbury Shadows, Geographic Sundials, A Portable Astroid Dial, William Oughtred's Double Horizontal Dial, Emerson's Quest, Shadow Plane Addendum, Emerson's Quandary, Some Secret Motion Of The Earth, A Memorable Birthday Celebration, Hauxley's Challenge, From Dial To Declination, Samuel Foster Of Gresham College, Towards A General Theory Of Dialing Scales, A Vertical Decliner By Dialing Scales And Schema, Nicole's Sunset, Herbert's Correction, Ptolemaic Coordinate Sundials, The Cycloid Polar Sundial, Kratzer's Layout, Prosthaphaeresis, The Six Tags Experience, Conference Presentations.

Détails

Date de publication
Aug 8, 2020
Langue
English
Catégorie
Médecine & sciences
Copyright
Tous droits réservés - Licence de copyright standard
Contributeurs
Par (auteur): Frederick Sawyer

Caractéristiques

Pages
212
Type de reliure
Livre à couverture rigide Livre à couverture rigide
Couleur de l’intérieur
Noir & Blanc
Dimensions
Roman (6 x 9 po / 152 x 229 mm)

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