Institutions of astronomical calculations : vol. III, part I / by Benjamin Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.

Contributor:

Founders Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eclipses.

Sun--Tables.

Sun.

Moon--Tables.

Moon.

Eclipses--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Tables.

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 72, xcvi pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of folded plates : illustrations (engravings), map ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for and sold by the author ... and all booksellers in city and country, 1765.

Contents:

(from t.p.) I. A new set of solar tables for computing the sun's true place, by Mr. Tobias Mayer, who verified every element thereof by his own observations

II. A new set of lunar tables calculated from the theory of universal gravitation, of an intire new form and the most commodious for astronomical calculations and verified by 200 observations; from the second quarto edition at Paris, 1765, by ... Mr. Clairaut ...

III. A general exposition or rationale of the nature, construction and use of astronomical tables, and of the precepts of calculation in solar and lunar eclipses, with the doctrine of shadows and their delineation on the surface of the earth, considered both as a sphere and a spheroid, a work intirely new, illustrated with three large copper plates.

Notes:

Intended to form part of a larger work: "the principles relative to the practical part ... will furnish a System of Institutions of Astronomical Calculations for the subject matter of the third volumes of these Physico-Mathematical institutes." -- Introd.

Errata: p. xiii at front.

Local Notes:

With: The Nautical almanac and astronomical ephemeris. -- 1770. -- London : Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark, printers, and sold by J. Nourse ... and Mess. Mount and Page ... booksellers ..., 1769.

OCLC:

80101174