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A view of the heavens: Being a short, but comprehensive system of modern astronomy. Exhibiting, I. The number, order, distances, magnitudes, and periods of all the planets and their several moons, composing our system, which the learning of the present age esteems as so many worlds full of inhabitants. II. The length of the day and year, with the variety of the seasons in each planet; and also the phænomena of the heavens to the inhabitants thereof. III. Some account of the comets, their number, periods, and appearances; and also the directions of their fiery trains thro' the heavens; with probable conjectures of the uses of those amazing bodies. IV. The number, magnitude, and distances of the fix'd stars; with their divisions into signs, catalogues, and constellations. V. The direct and retrograde motions of all the planets; as also, the reason why they sometimes appear stationary, or not to move at all. VI. The nature and causes of eclipses, both of the sun and moon; with an easy and expeditions method of calculating the eclipses, which will happen in any year. VII. The description and use of a curious astronomical clock, which will shew the hour of the night by the stars. To which is added, the use of the Cælestial Globe; with its application to a number of very interesting problems. Concluding with some curious phænomena upon the sun and moon exhibited in a darkened room; and a few select paradoxes, intended to excite the attention of the learner. The whole illustrated with copper-plates of the system, the Sun, Moon, eclipses, &c. and dispos'd in so easy and natural a manner, as to be understood in a few days. By the Rev. Mr. Turner, late of Magdalen-Hall, Oxford, author of the view of the earth;-plain trigonometry render'd easy and familiar;-System of gauging;-And chronologer perpetual.
Turner, R. (Richard), 1723 or 1724-1791.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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Sidereus nuncius : magna longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendáque proponens unicuique, præsertim verò philosophis, atque astronomis / quæ à Galileo Galileo ... ; perspicilli nuper à se reperti beneficio sunt observata in lunæ facie, fixis innumeris, lacteo circulo, stellis nebulosis ; apprimè verò in quatuor planetis circa Jovis stellam disparibus intervallis, atque periodis, celeritate mirabili circumvolutis ; quos, nemini in hanc usque diem cognitos, novissimè auctor deprehendit primus, atque Medicea sidera nuncupandos decrevit.
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642Date: 1653- Books
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Ephemerides of the celestial motions for X years : beginning anno 1672 (where the industrious Mr Wings expired) and ending an. 1681 : calculated according to art from new tables, and compared with the most correct observations of the noble Tycho, Kepler, Mr. Wright, and other approved astronomers : accomodated to the meridian of ... London : with an introduction to the use thereof / by John Gadbury.
Gadbury, John, 1627-1704Date: 1672- Books
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Tabulæ Rudolphinæ, or, The Rudolphine tables : supputated to the meridian of Uraniburge / first, by John Kepler, from the observations of the tres noble Ticho Brahe ; afterwards digested into a most accurate, and easie compendium, by the famous Johannes Baptista Morinus ... and printed for him at Paris, Anno Dom. 1650.
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630Date: 1675- Books
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The knowledge of the heavens and the earth made easy: or, the first principles of astronomy and geography explain'd by the use of globes and maps: ... By I. Watts.
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: 1726