Horologiographia. by Thomas Fale, 1633

jsducote · Aug 23, 2020

Up for auction -

The Art of Dialling: teaching, an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials upon any plaine plat howsoever placed. With the drawing of the twelve Signes, and houres unequall in them all. Whereunto is annexed the making and use of other Dials and Instruments, whereby the houre of the day and night is knowne: of speciall use and delight, not only for Students of the Arts Mathematicall, but also for divers Artificers, Architects, Surveyours of buildings, free-Masons and others.

kip595 · Aug 23, 2020

Fascinating, and the font is also headache inducing...

Benbradstock · Aug 23, 2020

Well this is cool as hell, thank you…

Foo2rama · Aug 24, 2020

I want to read it. The ways they must have used to make geometrically precise dials is fascinating to me.

shiloh_101 · Aug 24, 2020

Did we, at some point, just decide to switch U and V around?

MRC · Aug 24, 2020

shiloh_101
Did we, at some point, just decide to switch U and V around?

The alphabet the Romans used only had 23 letters, and did not include `U'. It was only just coming into regular use at the time this book was printed.

Simple explanation: https://www.dictionary.com/e/theletteru/
Long explanation: https://how-ocr-works.com/languages/latin-alphabet.html

Horologiographia. by Thomas Fale, 1633

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