Life of James Ferguson, F.R.S.: In a Brief Autobiographical Account, and Further Extended Memoir |
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Page 13 - ... length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having a candle by me.
Page 25 - take a long, thin piece of whalebone ; hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.
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Page 27 - Two large globular stones stood on the top of his gate ; on one of them I painted with oil colours a map of the terrestrial globe, and on the other a map of the celestial...
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Page 26 - ... upon it, and crushed it all to pieces ; which so provoked my father, that he was almost ready to beat the man, and discouraged me so much that I never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Life of James Ferguson, F.R.S.: In a Brief Autobiographical Account, and Further Extended Memoir |
| Authors | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson |
| Photographs by | James Ferguson |
| Illustrated by | Ebenezer Henderson |
| Publisher | A. Fullarton, 1867 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 16 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 503 pages |
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