The perpetual calculator, or, Time's universal standard : in three parts ... : to which is annexed an appendix containing several useful articles relative to those important sciences / by R. Wetherald ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wetherald, Rowland, 1727-1791, author.

Contributor:

I. Thompson and Company, printer.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perpetual calendars--Early works to 1800.

Perpetual calendars.

Time--Systems and standards--Early works to 1800.

Time.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Hydrostatics--Early works to 1800.

Hydrostatics.

Time--Systems and standards.

Penn Provenance:

Yarnall Library of Theology (Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia, Pa.) (stamp)

Physical Description:

7 unnumbered pages, page iii, 150 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)

Production:

Perpetual calculator.

Manufacture:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Printed by I. Thompson and Company, 1760.

Other Title:

Time's universal standard

Fingerprint:

D.t, aso, ndu- Chli (3) 1760 (A)

Notes:

"I. A plain and easy introduction to chronology since its last improvement, containing an historical account of the old and new stile, with plausible reasons for changing the same. Rules for finding the age and change of the moon, and whatever depends thereon, for ever. II. An account of the solar system, explaining the laws and means whereby the planets are preserved in their orbits, the cause of eclipses, and how to calculate them perpetually, a synopsis of comets, shewing how to predict the appearance of four remarkable ones, a synopsis of astronomy, with rules for discovering the motions of the celestial bodies, how to acquire their magnitudes, periodical revolutions, diurnal motions, distances, &c. invention of the zodiac, rules for the equation of time, &c. III. Pneumatics and hydrostatics, or the science of fluids displayed, containing the doctrine of tides, generation of meteors, and changes of the weather."

Signatures: pi⁴ A-T⁴.

"The eighth preliminary page is numbered iii."--ESTC.

Woodcut illustrations, head-pieces and tail-piece.

Type ornament head-piece and tail-pieces.

"With a list of subscribers."--ESTC.

"With a final leaf [i.e. leaf T4] of contents list and errata."--ESTC.

Local Notes:

Yarnall Library copy imperfect: all before last preliminary leaf (including title leaf) wanting.

Yarnall Library copy has a few manuscript notes in ink in text; some manuscript underlines and marks in blue pencil in text.

Yarnall Library of Theology (Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia, Pa.) copy; on permanent deposit at the University of Pennsylvania Library.

Yarnall Library copy has round blue ink Yarnall Library stamp on leaf T4r.

Yarnall Library copy: leaf T4 bound in before leaf A1.

Cited in:

ESTC T111571

OCLC:

63665368