 | England - 1883 - 854 pages
...Space does not permit us to describe the scientific plaything which, beginning with an arrangement " for showing the motions and places of the sun and...perpetually, and consequently the days of all the old and new moons," went on to the more elaborate circle of the moon's nodes, with all sorts of details... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...circle of twelve hours on the dial-plate of a watch, the hour-hand to the sun, and the minute-hand to the moon, moving in the ecliptic ; the one always...before. On this, I contrived and finished a scheme on pap«r for showing the motions and 2 c 3 places of the sun and moon in the ecliptic on each day of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...of astronomy; and having discovered by himself the cause of eclipses, drew up a scheme for shewing the motions and places of the sun and moon in the ecliptic on each day of the year, perpetually. This he transmitted to the celebrated Maclaurin, who found it to be very nearly correct, and was so... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...of astronomy ; and having discovered by himself the cause of eclipses, drew up a scheme for shewing the motions and places of the sun and moon in the ecliptic on each day of the year, perpetually. This he transmitted to the celebrated Maclaurin, who found it to be very nearly correct, and was so... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1834 - 450 pages
...favourite study of astronomy ; and having discovered by himself the cause of eclipses, drew up a scheme for showing the motions and places of the sun and...the ecliptic, on each day of the year, perpetually. This he transmitted to the celebrated Maclaurin, who found it to be very nearly correct, and was so... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Biography - 1832 - 336 pages
...pursuits. Among other things, he discovered by himself the cause of eclipses, and drew up a scheme for showing the motions and places of the sun and...the ecliptic on each day of the year, perpetually. He also made an orrery, without ever having seen the internal construction of any one. In the course... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...favorite study of astronomy; and having discovered by himself the cause of eclipws, (JiBw up a scheme for showing the motions and places of the sun and...the ecliptic on each day of the year, perpetually. This he transmitted to the celebrated Maclaurin, who found it to be very nearly correct, and was so... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...the circle of twelve hours on the dial-plate of a watch, the hour-hand to the sun, and the minutehand to the moon, moving in the ecliptic ; the one always...this, I contrived and finished a scheme on paper for shewing the motions and places of the sun and moon in the ecliptic on each day of the year, perpetually;... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...favorite study of astronomy ; and having discovered by himself the cause of eclipses, drew up a scheme for showing the motions and places of the sun and...the ecliptic, on each day of the year, perpetually. This he transmitted to the celebrated Maclaurin, who found it to be very nearly correct, and was so... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1842 - 516 pages
...favorite study of astronomy ; and having discovered by himself the cause of eclipses, drew up a scheme for showing the motions and places of the sun and moon in the ecliptic, on each day of the year, per. petually. This he transmitted to the celebrated Maclaurin, who found it to be very nearly correct,... | |
| |
This he transmitted to the celebrated Maclaurin, who found it to be very nearly correct, and was so much pleased with it, that he had it engraved. It sold very well, and Ferguson was induced once more to return to 
