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A treatise describing the construction, and Explaining the use, of New Celestial and Terrestrial globes. Designed to illustrate, In the most Easy and Natural Manner, The Phoenomena of the Earth and Heavens, And to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical problems. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
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A treatise describing the construction, and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial globes. Designed to illustrate, In the most Easy and Natural Manner, the phoenomena of the earth and heavens, And to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical Problems. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A treatise describing the construction, and Explaining the use, of New Celestial and Terrestrial globes. Designed to illustrate, In the most Easy and Natural Manner, The Phoenomena of the Earth and Heavens, And to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical Problems. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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A treatise describing and explaining the construction and use of new celestial and terrestrial globes. Designed to illustrate, In the most Easy and Natural Manner, the phoenomena of the earth and heavens, And to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical Problems occasionally interspersed. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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Vade mecum; or, Astronomical pocket-book: explaining the division of time, and construction of kalendars interspersed with many necessary and common tables. To which is added the geographic situation of remarkable places, as to latitude, longitude and country. And likewise a brief chronology of memorable events the whole forming a more useful compend than any other work of the kind hitherto extant.
Date: 1794- Books
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Practical navigation; or an introduction to the whole art, containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles. Plain, Mercator, great circle sailing; and Astronomical Problems. The Use of divers Instruments; as also of the Plain Chart, Mercator's Chart, and both Globes. Sundry Useful Tables in Navigation: and a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the Logarithm Sines, Tangents, and Secants. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.
Seller, John, active 1658-1698.Date: MDCCXL [1711]- Books
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The theory and practice of the longitude at sea. I. By the Reckoning, or usual Method of sailing. II. By the Help of Watches or time-keepers. III. By the Sun, Moon and Zodiacal Stars. IV. By New Variation charts of the Magnetic Needle. With a general introduction to its Astronomical and Physical Principles; a Variety of Copper Plates and several useful Tables. By Samuel Dunn; Teacher of Mathematics, London.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A treatise of the sphere; shewing how it is deriv'd from that theory which justly asserts the motion of the earth: as also of the projections of it, both orthographical & stereographical; Demonstrating their Properties from Fundamental Propositions, and shewing their Uses. With the Resolution of Astronomical and Chorographical Problems. By the late Reverend John Witty, M.A. and Chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
Witty, John.Date: 1714- Books
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Practical navigation; or an introduction, to the whole art, Containing The Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Triangles. Plain, Mercator, Great Circle Sailing; and Astronomical Problems. The Use of divers Instruments; as also of the Plain Chart, Mercator's Chart, and both Globes. Sundry Useful Tables in Navigation: And a Table of 10000 Logarithms, and of the Logarithm Sines, Tangents, and Secants. All carefully Corrected. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King.
Seller, John, active 1658-1698.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714] [1717]- Books
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The connecticut pocket almanac, for the year of our Lord 1800: Being The Twenty-Fourth Of The Independence Of The United States. Containing, besides every necessary Astronomical Calculation, the Lawyer's and Justice's Calendar for the New-England States, and a greater variety of useful and entertaining matter than is commonly sound in Almanacs of this size. The calculations by Nehemiah Strong, Late Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Yale College.
Strong, Nehemiah, 1729-1807.Date: [1799]- Books
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The doctrine of eclipses, both solar and lunar; containing short and easy precepts for computing solar and lunar eclipses. The general and geographical phænomena of solar eclipses. for Any Particular Place, with or without Parallaxes, Fully and Clearly Explained, from the Latest Discoveries and Improvements; whereby Any Person of a Moderate Capacity may be Able in a Short Time to Solve those Grand and Sublime Astronomical Prolembs. With correct astronomical tables from a manuscript copy of the Tabulæ Dunelmenses, fitted to the meridian of Greenwich. By Blith Hancock, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Hancock, Blyth, 1721 or 1722-1795.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A treatise describing the construction, and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial globes. Designed to illustrate, In the most Easy and Natural Manner, the phoenomena of the earth and heavens, And to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical Problems. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty. and the Use of the Globes is farther shewn in the Explanation of Spherical Triangles.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Merlinus Anglicus junior, or, The starry messenger for the year of our redemption 1698 : and from the creation, according to Sacred Writ, 5647, being the second after leap year : wherein is contained, (1) Astronomical and meterorological observations, (2) The state of the year, deduced according to art ... accommodated to the meridian of London ... but may indifferently serve (without sensible error) for any other part of Great Britain ... / by Henry Coley.
Coley, Henry, 1633-1704?Date: 1698- Books
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Chronology: or, the art of reckoning time. Describing the several divisions of time in common use; the nature and original of cycles and periods, and the most remarkable aera's; and the manner of Computing the Numbers of such Cycles, or the Common Notes, for any Year; the moveable Feasts; the Places of the Sun and Moon; and the Nature of the Calendar. Founded upon Astronomical Principles. To which is added, A Short Chronological Table.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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Synopsis mathematica universalis: or the universal mathematical synopsis, translated from the third and last edition of John James Heinlin, Prelate of Bebenhusan. Containing Variety of useful Practices in Arithmetick, Geometry, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Dialling, Chronology, Geography, the Optics, Catoptrics, Dioptrics, the Statics; Together with Astronomical and Geographical Tables, with their Uses, and also the use of the Globes. The whole illustrated with several Mathematical Sculptures on Copper Plates. Corrected and enlarged with many additions. By Venterus Mandey, Philomat.
Hainlin, Johann Jacob, 1588-1660.Date: [1702]- Books
A new systeme of the mathematicks: containing I. Arithmetick ... II. Practical geometry, together with the first six books of Euclid's Elements, as also the eleventh and twelfth, symbolically demonstrated. III. Trigonometry ... IV. Cosmography ... V. Navigation ... VI. The doctrine of the sphere ... VII. Astronomical tables ... logarithms ... sines and tangents ... VIII. A new geography / Composed by Sir Jonas Moore ... and designed for the use of the Royal Foundation of the Mathematical School in Christ-Hospital.
Moore, Jonas, Sir, 1617-1679Date: 1681- Digital Images
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Illustrations of astronomical instruments, Beijing, China
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An explanation and proof of "the complete system of astronomical chronology, unfolding the scriptures." In which The Truth and Reality of the Original Luni-Solar Radix Is clearly and fully ascertained; first, by Calculations à Priori; then confirmed, to the minutest Exactness, by Calculations à Posteriori, through an extensive Interval of 5800 Years. In a series of letters addressed to Mr. James Ferguson, Author of A Treatise of Astronomy upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles of Philosophy. By the Rev. John Kennedy, Rector of Bradley, in Derbyshire, And Author of the Complete System of Astronomical Chronology Unfolding the Scriptures.
Kennedy, John, 1698-1782.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
Chinese astronomical clockwork / Joseph Needham, Wang Ling, Derek J. Price.
Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995.Date: [1956?]- Books
Islamic astronomical instruments / David A. King.
King, David A., 1941-Date: 1987- Books
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The doctrine of a commensurability between the diurnal and annual motions. Illustrated and Confirmed By above 100 Calculations, which are all adjusted to the Meridian of Greenwich, and published to ascertain the Astronomical Principles of the Pentateuch of Moses. The most accurate Observations, which can be made for the current Year, & seq. are appealed to as the only proper Test of their Truth. By John Kennedy, Rector of Bradley in the County of Derby, Author of The New Scripture Chronology.
Kennedy, John, 1698-1782.Date: [1753]- Books
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A scotch atlas; or description of the Kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, Mines, Minerals, Metals, their Trade and Manufactures; also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, Rivers, Forests, Lochs &c. with the Principal Great and By[e] Roads, Passes, Forts, and other Particulars. The Whole taken from Topographical Surveys, regulated by Astronomical Observations, by Mostyn John Armstrong, Geographer. Beautifully engraved on 30 copper plates by H: Ashby.
Armstrong, Mostyn John.Date: [1787]- Digital Images
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Description of the astronomical instruments, Beijing, China
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The British mariner's guide. Containing, complete and easy instructions for the discovery of the longitude at sea and land, within a Degree, by Observations of the Distance of the Moon from the Sun and Stars, taken with Hadley's Quadrant. To which are added, An Appendix, containing a Variety of interesting Rules and Directions, tending to the Improvement of Practical Navigation in general. And a Sett of correct Astronomical tables. By Nevil Maskelyne, A. M. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of the Royal Society.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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Phillips's British merlin, and provincial calendar for the year 1796, Containing the Calendar Months, the Places of the Sun, Moon and Planets, the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Moon, the Eclipses, and other useful Astronomical Intelligence; also, a list of the Fairs, in the Counties of Leicester, Northampton, Rutland, Warwick, Derby, Nottingham, and Lincoln. The Members of Parliament, &c. for the same Counties. Also, an useful Table of all the existing and most common Taxes; Together with an interesting series of curious Astrological Predictions.
Phillips, R., Sir (Richard), 1767-1840.Date: [1795]