Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials, on plain and easy principles
Subtitle: 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 or after the 18th century. II. For graduating and examining the usual lines on the sector, plain scale, and gunter. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which is prefixed, A short account of the life of the author
By: By James Ferguson, F.R.S.
Publisher: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell ...
Published: 1773
Place of publication: London
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Industrial arts.; Clocks and watches.; Sundials.