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James Ferguson
Scottish astronomer (1710-1776)
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Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials. On plain and easy principles. With several miscellaneous articles, and new tables. I, for expeditiously computing the time of any new or full moon within ... 6,000 years before and after the 18th century ... II. For graduating and examining the usual lines ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author / by James Ferguson.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
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Date: 1778
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Analysis of a course of lectures : on mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and astronomy / read by James Ferguson.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
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Date: 1761
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Lectures on electricity / by James Ferguson, F.R.S.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
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Date: 1825
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Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles / [James Ferguson].
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
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Date: [1794]
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An introduction to electricity. In six sections ... : illustrated with copper plates / by James Ferguson.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
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Date: 1775
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David Brewster
Jeremiah Horrocks
Related topics
Astronomy
Optics
Mechanics
Sundials
Clocks and watches
Globes
Eclipses
Electricity
Tidal Waves
Horology
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