Foster, Samuel
Foster, Samuel, d. 1652
Foster, Samuel, ?-1652.
Samuel Foster British astronomer
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Works
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Astrocopium. [Cote :1801A] | |
Canon triangulorum | |
The description and use of the nocturnal | |
Dialling, plain, concave, convex, projective, reflective, refractive. Shewing, how to make all such dials, and to adorn them with all useful furniture relating to the course of the sun; performed arithmetically, geometrically, instrumentally and mechanically: and illustrated with sculptures, engraven in copper. Comprised in XIV. distinct tractates... 2d ed. corrected, and two new tractates added. | |
Elliptical, or, Azimuthal horologiography : comprehending severall wayes of describing dials upon all kindes of superficies either plain or curved ... | |
The geometrical square, with the use thereof in plain and spherical trigonometrie : chiefly intended for the more easie finding of the hour and azimuth | |
Miscellanies, or, Mathematical lucubrations of Mr. Samuel Foster, 1659: | |
Planetary instrument | |
Posthuma Fosteri: the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the uses thereof: | |
Sector altered; and other scales added | |
The use of the general planisphere, called the analemma, in the resolution of some of the chief and most useful problems of astronomy | |
The uses of a quadrant fitted for daily practise : Both with the ordinary lines for the hour and azimuth, and other things of the suns course in reference to the horizon. And also with new lines serving to the fore-mentioned and other purposes more accurately. As namely to find the hour of the night by the stars; to describe the most usuall sorts of dials; to perform all common things in mensuration. And many other requisite conclusions. Performed in an accurate, easie, and delightfull way. By Sam: Foster, Professor of Astronomie in Gresham Colledg. Published by A:T | |
Works. | |
The works of Edmund Gunter: containing the description and use of his sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments: with a canon of artificial sines and tangents, to a radius of 10,00000 parts, and logarithms from an unite [sic] to 10000 with the use thereof in arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, and dialling |