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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sundials.

Industrial arts.

Clocks and watches.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([12],xliii,[1],272p.,plates )

Edition:

The third edition.

Other Title:

Select mechanical exercises

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

With a half-title.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N21211.

OCLC:

642163792