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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89305	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.	Morgan, Sylvanus, 1620-1693.; Goddard, John, fl. 1645-1671, engraver.	1652 (1652)	Wing M2741; Thomason E652_16; ESTC R202919	57,946	133

HOROLOGIOGRAPHIA OPTICA Dialing Universall and perticuler Speculatiue and Practicall together with the discription of the Courte of Arts by a new Method By Sylvanus Morgan JJ. sculp Horologiographia Optica DIALLING Vniversall and Particular Speculative and Practicall In a threefold PRAECOGNITA 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 COVRT 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 inMore 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 1657. TO WILLIAM BATEMAN Esqrs. TO ANTHONY BATEMAN Esqrs. TO THOMAS BATEMAN Esqrs. Sons to the late Honourable THOMAS BATEMAN Esq Chamberlain of LONDON Deceased GENTLEMEN YOur late Father being a Patron of this Honourable City doth not a little invite me to you though young yet to patronise no less then the aspiring of Coelum which as the Poets feign was the ancientest of the gods and where you may see Sol only of the Titans favouring Jupiters signe and by their power and operation hath established Arts or Learning the fable rather according to that establishment which God hath given them they are I say sought out of those that take their pleasure therein Pardon my boldness I beseech you if like Prometheus I have made a man of clay and now come to light my bundle of twigs at the Chariot of the Sun desiring that you would infuse vigor in that which cannot at all move of it self if your benevolence shall but shine upon it the angles of incidence reflection shall be all one your love invites me to be so bold as to think you worthy of my labour wherein if faults shall arise in the Cuspis of the Ascendent they shall also have their fall upon my selfe And if any shall be offended at this Worke my device shall be a Dyall with this Mottoe Aspicio ut aspiciar only to all favourers of Art I am direct erect plaine as I am Gentlemen to you and desire to be Yours in the best of my services S. M. TO THE READER REader I here present thee with some Coelestiall operations drawn from the Macrocosmall World if I should tel you of plurality it may seem absurd but I 'le distinguish the word Mundus the World is somtimes taken Archtypically and so is God only in whose divine minde is an example of all things Mundus the World is somtimes taken Angelicall and this is the Hierarchicall government of Angels in Ceruphins Cherubins and Thrones Mundus the World is somtimes taken elementary and this is the Philosophers common place the Salamander in Fire the Birds in Air the Fish in Water and Men and Beasts on Earth Somtimes Macrocosmally considering the whol Universe as well Aetheriall as Subterene yea and every Orb and this is imaginarily set down in the Praecognita Astronomicall Somtimes Microcosmally as in the little World man and this is described in the last Chapter of the Praecognita Philosophicall Somtimes Typically and that either Geographicall or Gnomonicall or mentally in the minde of the workman Geographically in Maps or Globes or Sphears in plano Gnomonicall in this present Art of Dialling of which it may be said that Umbra horas Phoebi designat climate nostro Nodus quod signum Sol tenet arte docet And by which they must necessarily trace out our times by the orbiculation of the Rady of the circle of the body of the Sunne Again the World is mentally considered in the minde of an Artist as in Painting Graving Carving c. But having thus defined the word you may think from hence that I am with Democrates Platonissans acquainting thee with infinity of Worlds and in his words Stanza 20. and To speake out though I detest the Sect Of Epicurus for their manner vile Yet what is true I may not well neglect Of truths incorruptible ne can the stile Of vicious pen her sacred worth defile If we no more of truth should deign to speak Then what unworthy mouthes did never soyle No truths at all mongst men would finde a place But make them spéedy wings back to heaven apace Howsoever thou hast here a field large enough to walke in which if thou affect the light thou mayst trace out the truth and I presume I have done that for thee who art a learner the most plain wayes that were ever published and have studyed not to make it the Art of shadows so much as the shadow of that art whose Gnomons may be said to touch the Poles and whose planes may be severall Planispheres a Scale to the Geometrician a Pole to the Navigator a Chart to the Geographer a Zodiaque to the Astronomer a Table of Houses to the Astrologian the Meridian and Needle to the Surveyor a Dyall to us all to put us in minde of that pretious time which saith to us Fugio Fuge and which time shall be swallowed up of Eternity when there shall be but one day without Tropicall distinctions where thou shalt not need helps from any other nor from me who am thine S. M. In Solarium HIc tibi cum numero spectantur Nodus umbra Quae tria quid doceant commemorare libet Umbra notat dextrè quota cursitet hora dici Hincque monet vitam sic properare tuam Ast in quo signo magni lux publica mundi Versetur mira nodulus arte docet Si vis scire dies quot quilibet occupet horas Id numerus media sede locatus habet On my Friend Mr. Silvanus Morgan his Book of Dialling THe use of Dials all men understand To make them few I am one of those I am not of the Mathematick Band Nor know I more of Vers then Vers from Prose But though nor Diallist I am nor Poet I honour those in either doe excell Our Author 's skill'd in both alike I know it Shadows and Substance here run parallel Consider then the pains the Author took And thank him as thou benefit'st by 's Book Edward Barwick On the Author and his Book DAres Zoil or Momus for to carp at thee And let such Ideots as some Authors be Boldly to prosecute or take in hand Such noble subjects they not understand Only for ostentation pride or fame Or else because they 'd get themselves a name Like that lewd fellow who with hatefull ire Flinch'd not but set Diana's Court on fire His