A view of the heavens Being a short, but comprehensive, system of modern astronomy. Exhibiting, I. The number, order, distances, magnitudes, and periods of all the planets and their several moons, composing our system, which the learning of the present age esteems as so many worlds full of inhabitants. II. The length of the day and year, with the variety of the seasons in each planet; and also the ph(c)Œnomena of the heavens to the inhabitants thereof. III. Some account of the comets, their number, period, and appearances; and also the directions of their fiery trains thro' the heavens; with probable conjectures of the uses of those amazing bodies. IV. The number, magnitude, and distances of the fixed stars; with their divisions into signs, catalogues, and constellations. V. The true figure of the planets' orbits, with the nature of the motions in them; their aphelions, perihelions, eccentricities, nodes, &c. &c. VI. The inequality in the length of the natural day, commonly called the equation of time.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Turner, Richard
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London Printed for S. Crowder; at No. 12, Pater-noster-Row 1783, MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
Subjects:	Astronomy / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1738700500?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa