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.
Date:
1778
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    intended to give it when republithed, and for making mutilated tranflations of that and his Trigonometria Britannica, to the difcredit as well as difadvantage of the author. SBe this as it will, . Viaac’s editions are in great efteem, for having the intermediate’ Chiliads, . for his Sexagenary Notation, and for the exactitude of his Tables. Thefe Tables have been reduced into a more compendious form by the Reverend Nathaniel Roe, of Binacre in Suffolk, in 1633; by Dr. Newton in 1658; and the finifhing hand feems to be given to them, in point of dif- pofition and fulnefs, by Sherwin, in 1706 ; in whofe Mathematical Tables are contained, to 7 places of figures befides the index, the logarithms of © numbers from 1 to 100000, with natu- ral and logarithmical Sines, Tangents, Secants, and verfed Sines, to every minute of the quadrant. The honour of this noble and ufeful invention has been almoft univerfally attributed to the Great Man to whom | ; it