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.

Published by W. Strahan and T.Cadell., London., 1773

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A book by the remarkable self-taught Scottish artist, astronomer and clockmaker. weight: 1.3 lb. Very good, old covers moderately worn, lacking the portrait frontis, bookplate to pastedown, contents very good. Nine folding plates. 8vo., 21.5x13 cm. [12], xliii, [1 errata], 272 pp. Rebacked with modern brown leather over original leather boards. Seller Inventory # 290951

Bibliographic Details

Title: Select mechanical exercises, shewing how to ...

Publisher: W. Strahan and T.Cadell., London.

Publication Date: 1773

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition.