Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the arts of smithing, joinery, carpentry, turning, bricklayery : to which is added Mechanick dyalling: shewing how to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane ...
Mechanick exercises is a 1703 London trade manual by Joseph Moxon, printed for Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Leigh, teaching craftsmen smithing, joinery, carpentry, turning and bricklaying, with a section on sundial drawing. The plates are numbered engravings of tools, machines and geometric constructions. A designer might draw on their precise line diagrams of mechanisms, measuring rules and curved geometric forms.
