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 the Limits of 6000 Years before and after the 18th Century. II. For graduating and examining the usual Lines on the Sector, Plain Scale, and Gunter. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which is prefixed, A short Account of the Life of the Author. By James Ferguson, F. R. S
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand
1790, MDCCXC. [1790]
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| Edition: | The third edition |
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, N21211. - Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library. - With a half-title |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([12],xliii,[1],272p.,plates) 8° |