Binding: Softcover
PAYPAL & Credit Card "The Joynter is made somewhat longer than the Fore-Plane, ,and hath its Sole perfectly straight from end to end. Its Office is to follow the Fore-plane..." Mechanick Exercises: Or The Doctrine Of Handy-Works, was written, printed and published by Joseph Moxon between 1683 & 1685 and reprinted in 1703. Breaking away from Guild restrictions, Moxon wrote of what he knew from his experiences as a practitioner of skilled trades. A maker of technical and scientific instruments such as Globes and Sun dials, Moxon was a cartographer as well as Hydrographer to the King (a maker of maps of the oceans). He was the first tradesman to be admitted to the Royal Society zaof Longon. Mechanic Exercises was the first book in the English language to be published as a serial in affordable installments of 6-10 pence apiece. Moxon popularized the guild secrets of Smithing, Joynery, House Carpentry, Turning and Sun Dyalling (the making of Sun Dials). The Toolemera Press edition of Mechanick Exercises features an Introduction discussing Joseph Moxon and his publication of Mechanick Exercises. Included in the Introduction is a brief guide to reading 17th century writting. To preserve the 'look and feel' of an early book, each page has been imaged in 300 dpi Grayscale, with minimal post-imaging work in Photoshop to enhance the legibility of each page without affecting the texture of the early paper. Notes, signatures and other marginalia from early owners of this book have been preserved. See our reprint of Peter Nicholson's Mechanic's Companion, 1850 |
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