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An universal history of arts and sciences: or, a comprehensive illustration, definition, and description of all sciences, divine and human; and of all arts, liberal and mechanical. The origin and progresses of all religions ... the description of all countries ... the different systems of philosophers ... observations of astronomers ... the history of all Orders ... The whole extracted from the best authors / [Dennis De Coetlogon].
De Coetlogon, Dennis, -1749.Date: 1745- Books
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A new prognostication, for the year of Christ 1669 : Being the first after leap-year. Wherein are contained the moveable feasts, the change of the moon, her full and quarters: the dayly disposition of the weather, and the fairs of Scotland: with a full description of the eclipses, and of the four quarters of this present year. : Likewise Ptolomeus, and other astronomers, show the dismal and perillous dayes that come in the year: with other yearly observations, and of the signification of thunder on everie day of the week. / By Philomathes of Aberdene.
PhilomathesDate: 1669- Books
History of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Date: 1987-- Books
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A most strange and vvonderfull prophesie vpon this troublesome world / Calculated by the famous doctor in astrologie, Maister Iohn Cypriano, conferred with the iudgements of Iames Marchecelsus and Sinnior Guiuardo, three excellent astronomers vnder the emperour of Christendom: sent out of Germany into Italy, to the Vniuersitie of Padua, to the rarest nigromancer in the world. Whereunto is annexed Tarquatus Vandermers seauen yeres study in the arte of magick, vpon the twelue moneths of the yeare, where many secrets are reveald vnto the world. ; Translated out of Italian by Anth. Hollaway Gent.
Cipriano, GiovanniDate: 1595- Books
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Description of a new astronomical rotula, for shewing the rising and setting of the sun, moon, and stars, with the place of the moon's node, and the mean time of new and full moons, ... made on the same construction, and serving to illustrate and explain his new invented astronomical clocks and watches.
Margetts, George, 1748-1804.Date: 1790?]- Books
The clockwork of the heavens : [catalogue of] an exhibition of astronomical clocks, watches and allied scientific instruments / presented by Asprey & Company with the special help of Harriet Wynter and the collaboration of various museums and private collections.
Asprey & Co.Date: 1973- Books
Wilhelm Schickard, 1592-1635 : Astronom, Geograph, Orientalist, Erfinder d. Rechenmaschine / herausgegeben von Friedrich Seck.
Date: 1978- Books
Chinese astronomical clockwork / Joseph Needham, Wang Ling, Derek J. Price.
Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995.Date: [1956?]- Books
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An essay towards the history of the principal comets that have appeared since the year 1742 ; including a particular detail of the return of the famous comet of 1682 in 1759, according to the calculation and prediction of Dr. Halley / compiled from the observations of the most eminent astronomers of this century ; with remarks and reflections upon the present comet ; to which is prefixed by way of introduction a letter upon comets, addressed to a lady by the late M. de Maupertuis. Written in the year 1742.
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814.Date: 1769- Books
Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, astronomer and geodesist / I.S. Glass.
Glass, I. S. (Ian S.)Date: 2013- Books
Nevil Maskelyne : the seaman's astronomer / Derek Howse ; with a foreword by Sir Francis Graham Smith.
Howse, Derek.Date: 1989- Books
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The copernicus explain'd: or a brief account of the nature and use of an universal astronomical instrument, for the calculation and exhibition of new and full moons, and of eclipses, both Solar and Lunar; with the Places Heliocentrical and Geocentrical of all the Planets, Primary and Secondary, &c. By William Whiston, M. A. Sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1715- Books
Simon Bredon (c. 1300-1372), physician, mathematician and astronomer / by C.H. Talbot.
Talbot, C. H. (Charles Holwell)Date: 1962- Books
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A proposal for measuring the attraction of some hill in this kingdom by astronomical observations. By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, B. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal. Read at the Royal Society, in the year 1772.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
Australian astronomer, John Tebbutt : the life and world of the man on the / Ragbir Bhathal.
Bhathal, R. S.Date: 1993- Books
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The description and uses of the celestial and terrestrial globes, and of Collins's pocket-quadrant / By John Harris.
Harris, John, 1667?-1719.Date: 1710- Books
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The method of dividing astronomical instruments. By Mr. John Bird, mathematical instrument-maker, in the Strand. Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude.
Bird, John, 1709-1776.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The method of dividing astronomical instruments. By Mr. John Bird, mathematical instrument-maker, in the Strand. Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude.
Bird, John, 1709-1776.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
Union catalogue of printed books of the XV and XVI centuries in astronomical European observatories / compiled by Giovanna Grassi.
Grassi, Giovanna.Date: 1977- Books
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Views of astronomy : seven lectures delivered before the Mercantile Library Association of New York in the months of January and February, 1848 / by J.P. Nichol ; reported for the New-York Tribune by Oliver Dyer.
Nichol, J. P. (John Pringle), 1804-1859.Date: 1848- Books
Le cosmolabe, ou instrument vniuersal, concernant toutes obseruations qui se peuuent faire par les sciences mathematiques, tant au ciel, en la terre, comme en la mer / De l'inuention de M. Iaques Besson.
Besson, Jacques (Mathematician)Date: 1567-1569- Books
The illustrated account given by Hevelius in his "Machina celestis" of the method of mounting his telescopes and erecting an observatory : reprinted from an original copy / with remarks by C. Leeson Prince.
Hevelius, Johannes, 1611-1687.Date: 1882- Books
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A companion to the synopsis of the universe, or descriptive guide to the plates exhibiting the northern and southern sideral hemispheres, as forming concaves over the solar system Whose Integral Planets are delineated in their Positions for the 21st day of June 1798, with the Places of their Nodes, the Inclination of their Axis, the Obliquities of their Orbits, &c. exemplified by Delineation, together with a summary account of the comet which appeared in the summer 1797, with the same laid down in its Situation on the 22d of August. By the author of The planispherical planetarium.
Watson, F. B.Date: 1798- Books
Cai tu ben Zhongguo gu tian wen yi qi shi = Colour-printing, the history of ancient astronomical instruments of China / zhu bian Pan Nai.
Date: 2005- Books
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The description, use, and excellency of a new instrument, or sea quadrant, invented by Caleb Smith, for taking altitudes of the sun, moon, and stars, from the visible horizon (as well as any other Angular Distances at Land or Sea) without impediment or Interruption from the ship's motion; whereby the Latitude at Sea May be obtained with greater Certainty, and more frequently, than by Davis's or any other of the Common Instruments. Tried, approved, and recommended by Capt. Christopher Middleton, Capt. George Spurrel, Capt. Joseph Harrison, and several other able and experienced Navigators. To which is added, An Essay to make this Quadrant serviceable at Sea, as well as at Land, when there is no Horizon to be seen. As also The Usefulness of its Application to an Aximuth Compass of a New Contrivance for discovering the Variation of the Magnetic Needle, at Sea, without any Astronomical Calculation.
Smith, Caleb, active 1740.Date: [1740?]