The description and use of a new portable orrery : on a most simple construction, representing in two parts-the motions, and phænomena of the planetary system; But more particularly the Motions of the Earth and Moon, round the Sun, from whence the Nature and Causes of the vicissitudes of the Seasons, Days, and Nights, Solar and Lunar Eclipses, &c. are clearly explained. To which is prefixed, A short Account of the Solar System, or the true System of the World. The second edition, enlarged, with an Account of the New discovered Planet, called the Georgium Sidus, and embellished with a new copper plate of the instrument. By William Jones, Mathematical Instrument maker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, William, 1763-1831.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Planetariums.

Astronomical models.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36,3[1]p.,plate )

Other Title:

Description and use of a new portable orrery

Place of Publication:

London : printed for and sold by John Jones, and son, at their Shop, No. 135, near Furnivals-Inn, Holborn, M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]

Notes:

With two final advertisement leaves.

Price from imprint: Price One Shilling.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T62587.

OCLC:

642647026