Charles Leadbetter | lit.salonCharles Leadbetter
Books by Charles Leadbetter (50 max)
Mechanick dialling: or, The new art of shadows freed from the many obscurities, superfluities and errors of former writers upon this subject ... Illustrated with many copper plates, and examples of dials for London, Exeter ... Edinburgh, Dublin, &c. To which are added, 1. A choice collection of mottos in Latin and English. 2. A new ... table of the most eminent cities, towns, in the whole world; shewing the elevation of the pole, and tho-difference of their moridian from London. 3. The best and most approved methods of painting sun dials ...
1737A compleat system of astronomy in two volumes : containing the description and use of the sector, the laws of spheric geometry, the projection of the sphere orthographically and stereographically upon the planes of the meridian, ecliptic and horizon, the doctrine of the sphere, and the eclipses of the sun and moon for thirty seven years : together with all the precepts of calculation : also new tables of the motions of the planets, fix'd stars, and the first satellite of Jupiter, of right and oblique ascensions, and of logistical logarithms : to the whole are prefix'd, astronomical definitions for the benefit of young students
1728A treatise of eclipses of the sun and moon for thirty-five years, commencing anno 1715, ending 1749: containing the beginning, middle and ending, the digits eclipsed : together, with the types of those that will be visible at London, with the general times of the solar eclipses, and the limits of the shade of the moon determined : to which are added, the calculations of the times of the transits of Venus and Mercury over the sun, with the types thereof, for seventy-nine years : and the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, to the year 1821
1731Uranoscopia, or, The contemplation of the heavens: being a demonstration of the equation of time : with the method of observing the solar ingresses into any point of the ecliptic : and the investigation of the aphelions, and eccentricities of the planets : the determination of the greatest elongation of Venus and Mercury from the sun : of the mean motion of the earth, her aphelion, and the recession of the equinox : the sun and moon's true and apparent places, by calculation and observation : with the true hour of the night, by the stars, perform'd by a new quadrant : also, an explanation and demonstration of the Keplarian and Flamsteedian methods of computing the times, and principal appearances of solar eclipses : to which are added, new tables of the nonagesime degree, its altitude : the moon's parallax in altitude, longitude and latitude : with many other things useful for such a work
1735
