Stanislav - that's exactly right. It's extremely frustrating to find a scan that gives the text but does not reproduce the graphic.
Fred On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Putowsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Fred. > Thank you very much for your very accurate answer. > It is a shame that the guys from Google Books doesn't know how to digitize > books. > They mutilate allways the most important pages for a gnomonist, the images. > It only cost a little bit more of time to digitize also the prints!. > At least the books digitized by Microsoft have text and also the prints. > The guys from Google didn't realized that a book digitized in the way they > do is worth almost for nothing? > May be somebody can tell them to do a well done digitized copy? > Stanislav Putowsky. > [email protected] > > On 27 feb 2016, at 19:48, Fred Sawyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a print from Pluche's Spectacle de la Nature. For an English > translation of this book, see > > > https://books.google.com/books?id=FOI4AAAAMAAJ&dq=horary+machine&source=gbs_navlinks_s > > The machine is described on p. 212 and following. > > Fred Sawyer > > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Dan-George Uza <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> An old print depicting a "horary machine" is being sold on E-bay. Can you >> please tell me what it is and how it works? >> >> <horary machine.jpg> >> >> >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/1766-PLUCHE-Horary-Machine-Ring-Dial-Sundial-Antique-Engraving-/291691633308?hash=item43ea2d1a9c:g:9nUAAOxyrrpTgZSe >> >> Thanks! >> >> Dan >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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