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

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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Very good, old covers moderately worn, lacking the portrait frontis, bookplate to pastedown, contents very good. 1st Edition. Rebacked with modern brown leather over original leather boards. 8vo., 21.5×13 cm. A book by the remarkable self-taught Scottish artist, astronomer and clockmaker. weight: 1.3 lb. W. Strahan and T.Cadell. London. 1773. [12], xliii, [1 errata], 272 pp. Nine folding plates.

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Weight 1.3 lbs
Author

Ferguson, James

Publisher

W. Strahan and T.Cadell.

Publication Date

1773

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