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Planetariums - Early works to 1800

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    A concise description of Dicas's portable eidouranion, or Astronomical lucernal; with particular directions for applying the apparatus belonging to it; and a summary dissertation on the various phenomena which it is designed to exhibit and illustrate . By John Clegg. The Lucernal is made and sold by M. Dicas, at her mathematical shop, bottom of Pool Lane, Liverpool.

    Clegg, John, cartographer. | Date: [1797?]
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    An account of the eidouranion; or, Transparent orrery Invented by A. Walker, of Conduit Street, Honover Square; as lectured upon by his son W. Walker. with the new discoveries.

    Walker, William, 1766?-1816. | Date: [1795?]
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    The description and use of the globes and the orrery . To which is prefix'd, by way of introduction, a brief account of the solar system. By Joseph Harris, Teacher of the Mathematicks.

    Harris, Joseph, 1704-1764. | Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]

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