The perpetual calculator: or, time's universal standard In three parts. I. A plain and easy Introduction to Chronology since its last Improvement, containing an historical Account of the Old and New Stile, with plausible Reasons for changing the same. Rules for finding the Age and Change of the Moon, and whatever depends thereon, for ever. II. An Account of the Solar System, explaining the Laws and Means whereby the Planets are preserved in their Orbits: The Cause of Eclipses, and how to calculate them perpetually: A Synopsis of Comets, shewing how to predict the Appearance of four remarkable ones: A Synopsis of Astronomy, with Rules for discovering the Motions of the Celestial Bodies, how to acquire their Magnitudes, periodical Revolutions, diurnal Motions, Distances, &c. Invention of the Zodiac: Rules for the Equation of Time, &c. III. Pneumatics and Hydrostatics, or the Science of Fluids displayed; containing the Doctrine of Tides, Generation of Meteors, and Changes of the Weather. To which is annexed, an Appendix, Containing, Several useful Articles relative to those important Sciences. By R. Wetherald, philomath

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Wetherald, Rowland
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Newcastle upon Tyne printed by I. Thompson and Company 1760, 1760
Subjects:	Astronomy / Early Works To 1800 Chronology / Early Works To 1800 Hydrostatics / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0031200300?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa