Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics. With the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses / By James Ferguson.

  • Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
Date:
1760
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Credit: Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics. With the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses / By James Ferguson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. atitade, how found 366 aws of the planets motions ead, how it rruiy be made to fwim in water 11 7 Lee^'enhoek, his account of the number and fize of the fmall animals in the milt of a cod- filh 4 ,enfes, their properties 2I7 ver, its ufe 54 light, the amazing fmallnefs of its particles -reflefted -refrafted 209 210 21 I 14 *9 dne of diredion )ad{lone, its properties ,ongj (Rev. Dr.) his curious experiment with a concave mirrour 237 —-his glafs fphere 329 Looking-glafs 232 -need be only half the length and half the breadth of a man, to Ihew him his whole image 253 M. Magnetifm 19 2±7 228' 22^ Microfeope, fmgle ■-— double . folar Mills for grinding corn 78—89 Mirrours, how they refled the light 232 Monfoons 179 Moon, the law of her motion 25—iS Motion (all) naturally i^edili- neal 22 Multiplying glafs N. NenjjJhamh engine for extin- guilhing fire 133 O. Objeds, how their images are formed by means of glafies 219 -.why they appear ered notwithflanding their images are inverted in the eye 223 why they appear co- Man, how he may raife himfelf up by his breath 116 -of a middle hze, how much he is preft by the at- mofpherc 176 Matter, its properties i —21 Mechanical powers, 52—77 - all combined in one engine 76 Metals, expand by heat 17 their fpecific gravities 162 loured when feen through fome telefcopes 242 Opera-glafs 232 Optic nerve, why that part of the image which falls upon it is loH 223 P. Padmore (Mr.) his improvement of cranes Perievei Perjian wheel Pile engine Planetary motions thereof) Poles, of the earth vens (the and 262, 9; 282 156 J04 laws ' (1 r V. ' « Polar