Astronomy improved: or, A new theory of the harmonious regularity observable in the mechanism or movements of the planetary system.
Subtitle: In three lectures, read in the chapel of Yale-College, in New-Haven. Begun February 17, 1781. : Exhibiting a new and accurate method, for investigating the velocities, distances and periods of the planets; founded on the nature of gravitation, and mathematical relations and dependencies between their distances, velocities and periods: as also for finding the quantities of matter in the primary planets; and the figure of the moon's orbit in open space.
By: By Nehemiah Strong, M.A. Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in that college. ; Published for the use, and at the desire of the students. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Contributors: Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795, dedicatee.; Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832, engraver.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 18797.
Publisher: Printed by Thomas & Samuel Green.
Published: 1784
Place of publication: New-Haven
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Astronomy.; Mechanics, Celestial.
Notes: Dedication to Ezra Stiles dated: Yale-College, Nov. 1st, 1781.

Signatures: [A]þ́ B-Fþ́ G℗ø.

Plates engraved by Amos Doolittle.

With an errata leaf.

Evans 18797.

Trumbull, J.H.  Connecticut, 1474.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18797)