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  De instrumentis plantariis cui usui inserviunt, & quomodo sunt tractanda / a Samuele Fostero ... = Of the planetary instruments : to what end they serve, and how they are to be used / by Samuel Foster ...
  Date of publication:
  1659
  

  Author(s):

  Foster, Samuel, d. 1652.
  Description:
  Text in Latin and English in facing parallel columns. Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
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  Elliptical or azimuthal horologiography comprehending severall wayes of describing dials upon all kindes of superficies, either plain or curved, and unto upright stiles in whatsoever position they shall be placed / invented and demonstrated by Samuel Foster ...
  Date of publication:
  1654
  

  Author(s):

  Foster, Samuel, d. 1652. ; Twysden, John, 1607-1688. ; Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656.
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  "To the reader" signed: John Twysden, Edmund Wingate. In four parts, paged continuously; pts. 2-4 each have special t.p. Title page vignette. Advertisement on p. [3] at end. Reproduction of original in Harvard University ...
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  Posthuma Fosteri the description of a ruler, upon which is inscribed divers scales: and the uses thereof: invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie in Gresham-Colledg. By which the most usual propositions in astronomy, navigation, and dialling, are facily performed. Also, a further use of the said scales in deliniating of far declining dials; and of those that decline and recline, three severall wayes. With the deliniating of all horizontall dials, between 30 and 60 gr. of latitude, without drawing any lines but the houres themselves.
  Date of publication:
  1654
  

  Author(s):

  Foster, Samuel, d. 1652.
  Description:
  With final page of errata. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  The art of dialling by a new, easie, and most speedy way. Shewing, how to describe the houre-lines upon all sorts of plaines, howsoever, or in what latitude soever scituated: as also, to find the suns azimuth, whereby the sight of any plaine is examined. Performed by a quadrant, fitted with lines necessary to the purpose. Invented and published by Samuel Foster, professor of astronomie in Gresham Colledge.
  Date of publication:
  1638
  

  Author(s):

  Foster, Samuel, d. 1652.
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  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A01089) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 2628) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1097:07)
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  The description and use of the nocturnal by M. Samuel Foster ... ; with the addition of a ruler, shewing the measures of inches and other parts of most countries, compared with our English ones ; being useful for all merchants & tradesmen.
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Foster, Samuel, d. 1652. ; R., Mr.
  Description:
  Caption title. Imprint suggested by Wing. Includes: "Additions to the instrument, in brass; made by Mr. R. Aug. 1st. 1684." Reproduction of original in the Trinity College Library. Cambridge University.
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  The geometrical square, with the use thereof in plain and spherical trigonometrie chiefly intended for the more easie finding of the hour and azimuth / by Samuel Foster ...
  Date of publication:
  1659
  

  Author(s):

  Foster, Samuel, d. 1652.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Yale University Library.
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