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 : to which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author. Ferguson, James. W. Strahan and T.Cadell.
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1st Edition. 8vo., Rebacked with modern brown leather over original leather boards. 21.5x13x3 cm. W. Strahan and T.Cadell. London. 1773. [12], xliii, [1 errata], 272 pp. Nine folding plates. Very good, old covers moderately worn, lacking the portrait frontis, bookplate to pastedown, contents very good. A book by the remarkable self-taught Scottish artist, astronomer and clockmaker. weight: 1.3 lb.
| Weight | 1.3 lbs |
|---|---|
| Author | Ferguson, James |
| Publisher | W. Strahan and T.Cadell. |
| Publication Date | 1773 |
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