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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.

Title: Select mechanical exercises [electronic resource] : 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.
Author: Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
Publication: London : printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]

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[12],xliii,[1],272p.,plates : port.; 8⁰.

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With a half-title.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

642444481
ECCO1-T146642

Author

Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.

Title

Select mechanical exercises [electronic resource] : 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.

Imprint

London : printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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English Short Title Catalog, T146642.

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Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.

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