Leybourn (William) Panorganon: Or, An Universal Instrument, Performing All Such Conclusions Geometrical And Astronomical As Are Usually Wrought By The Globes, Spheres, Sectors, Quadrants, [&C.], first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 2 folding plates, woodcut initials, head-pieces and diagrams, marginal browning and occasional chipping, occasional light marking or soiling, modern panelled calf, [Tomash & Williams L104; Wing L1928], small 4to, William Birch, 1672. ⁂ The Panorganon describes a quadrant which Leybourn had himself designed, though he acknowledged that he owed much to the manuscript notes of Samuel Foster, professor at Gresham College. Provenance: John Gardiner, William Green and Doubleday Auborn (early ink inscriptions).
Leybourn (William) Panorganon: Or, An Universal Instrument, Performing All Such Conclusions Geometrical And Astronomical As Are Usually Wrought By The Globes, Spheres, Sectors, Quadrants, [&C.], first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 2 folding plates, woodcut initials, head-pieces and diagrams, marginal browning and occasional chipping, occasional light marking or soiling, modern panelled calf, [Tomash & Williams L104; Wing L1928], small 4to, William Birch, 1672. ⁂ The Panorganon describes a quadrant which Leybourn had himself designed, though he acknowledged that he owed much to the manuscript notes of Samuel Foster, professor at Gresham College. Provenance: John Gardiner, William Green and Doubleday Auborn (early ink inscriptions).
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