Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, 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 |
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| Title | Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, 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 Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | James Ferguson |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | W. Strahan, 1776 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 22 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 444 pages |
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