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SUNDIALS – Domenico LUCHINI (d.1737). ‘Practica compendiata, e facilessima per la costruzione degli orologi solari’, apparently authorial manuscript, with frequent cancellations, emendations and insertions, some on inserted slips, [Rome], 1730. Title, introductory letter and explanatory text on 141 pages, catalogue of cities with their latitudes on 5 pages, and series of 16 extensive tables for the calibration of Italian sundials and lunar dials at the different degrees of latitude, of azimuths and other astronomical measurements, on 370 pages, index, and figures of sundials eight pages. Altogether approximately 535 pages, variable sizes, approx. 275 x 200mm . Contemporary leather-backed boards (rather rubbed).
SUNDIALS – Domenico LUCHINI (d.1737). ‘Practica compendiata, e facilessima per la costruzione degli orologi solari’, apparently authorial manuscript, with frequent cancellations, emendations and insertions, some on inserted slips, [Rome], 1730. Title, introductory letter and explanatory text on 141 pages, catalogue of cities with their latitudes on 5 pages, and series of 16 extensive tables for the calibration of Italian sundials and lunar dials at the different degrees of latitude, of azimuths and other astronomical measurements, on 370 pages, index, and figures of sundials eight pages. Altogether approximately 535 pages, variable sizes, approx. 275 x 200mm . Contemporary leather-backed boards (rather rubbed). The author, a native of Pesaro, was a beneficed clergyman at St John Lateran in Rome, where he died in 1737: he published another work on sundials, Trattenimenti Matematici , at Rome in the same year as the present work, and also contributed to the calendar of the Thesaurus sacrorum rituum (Rome, 1738).