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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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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1778.

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6 unnumbered leaves, xliii, 272 pages, 9 folded plates : portrait ; (8vo)

Edition

2nd ed.

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ESTC T131247

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