Text set / An horizontal dial for latitude of Carleton 54°33".

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Title: An horizontal dial for latitude of Carleton 54°33".
Creator: Pulleine, Thomas Babington, b. 1731.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1750]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript.
Scope/Content: Manuscript treatise concerning the construction of a horizontal sundial at Carleton Hall in North Yorkshire in 1750. The volume contains numerous tables, diagrams (some hand-colored) and calculations specific to the latitude and longitude of the location. This seems to be the work of Thomas Babington Pulleine, the owner of Carleton Hall: his name is inscribed on the front free endpaper in handwriting that matches the rest of the text.
Condition: Bound in recent quarter calf with marbled boards.
Type: text
Extent: 54, [14] p., bound :diagrams ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n11c8v
MS.1997.002
Language: English
eng
Subject: Sundials--England--18th century.
Dialing--18th century.
Place: England--North Yorkshire--Carleton
Provenance: Front free endpaper inscribed: "Thos. Babington Pulleine, 1750."
Location: CLUW

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