Analysis of a course of lectures : on mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and astronomy / read by James Ferguson.

  • Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
Date:
1761
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Credit: Analysis of a course of lectures : on mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and astronomy / read by James Ferguson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■ / sfNY Gentleman, in or near London, may have thh' Courfe of LeClures read at his Houfe, /<?r Twelve Guineas, or any fingle Lett lire for One Guinea, cwr charge of carrying the apparatus. Or, if twenty perfons fuhfcrihe a Guinea each, the whole Courfe read, any where in London, within Tm Miles of it.—Greater difiances require larger fubfcriptions. The Author teaches the Ufe of the Globes in a Months attending one Hour every Day (Sunday excepted) for Two Guineas at home \ or Four Guineas abroad, if not more th(in a Mile from his houfe. Thofe who are taught abroad, provide Globes for themfelves.—He alfo teaches practical Geometry by the Scale and Compajfes, the Con- jlruclion of Maps, Projection of the Sphere, the principles of Dialings and the Calculation of New and Full Moons and Eclipfes *3 on the fame Terms. His ASTRONOMICAL, ROTULA,, Jhewing the Day of the Month, Change and Age of the Moon, /&£ Places of the Sun and Moon in the Ecliptic, with the Times of all the Eclipfes of the Sun and Moon, /n?rz A. D. 1752 to A. D. 1800, fold at his Houfe for Five Shillings and Six-pence. m Likewife, his NEW ASTRONOMICAL IN¬ STRUMENT, Jhewing all the above problems except the Eclipfes, and inftead of them the Riftng, Southing, and Setting of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, the Lati¬ tude of London, zjPrice. And, his LJJMINARIUM, a fmallInfirument (about the fize of a common card) folving all the above pro¬ blems, except thofe relating to the Stars and Eclipfes be fells for Two Shillings. ANALYSIS