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A51544 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 ... Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691. 1668 (1668) Wing M3009; ESTC R20066 27,959 54

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