Select Mechanical Exercises. Shewing how to Conduct 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

FERGUSON,, James.

Verlag: London, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand. Second Edition. 1778.

Beschreibung

8vo xii + 272pp. Frontispiece and 9 folding copper-engravings. Early full calf binding with some wear, now professionally recased and re-backed with new red leather title-label. The frontispiece portrait has been bound before the half-title. A very good copy. A most interesting international time indicator with a moving dial, clearly from the 18th century, is mounted on the rear paste-down.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 209969

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Select Mechanical Exercises. Shewing how to Conduct 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
• Verlag: London, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand. Second Edition. 1778.
• Einband: Hardcover