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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sundials.

Industrial arts.

Clocks and watches.

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages,xliii pages, 1 unnumbered page,272 pages,plates ; 8⁰

Edition:

The third edition.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCXC. [1790]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With a half-title.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N21211.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.