 | John Aikin - 1804 - 666 pages
...in which he adhered to a peculiar and uncouth phraseology. This is sufficiently apparent from his " Description concerning such Mechanism as will afford a nice or true Mensuration of Time, &c." 1775, octavo. This small work includes also an account of his new musical scale, or mechanical... | |
 | History - 1805 - 608 pages
...writing ; in which he adhered toa particular and uncouth phraseology. This was but too evident in his Description concerning such Mechanism as will afford a nice or true Mensuration of Time, &c. 8vo. 1775 ; which his well-known mechanical talents will induce the public to account for from... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...impaired) in which he adhered to a peculiar and uncouth phraseology. This was but too evident in his " Description concerning such mechanism as will afford a nice or true Mensuration of Time," &c. 1775, 8vo. This small work includes also an account of his new musical scale ; being a mechanical... | |
 | Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...impaired) in which he adhered to a peculiar and uncouth phraseology. This was but too evident in his " Description concerning such mechanism as will afford a nice or true Mensuration of Time," &c. 1775, 8vo. This small work includes also an account of his new musical scale ; being a mechanical... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 536 pages
...impaired) in which he adhered to a peculiar and uncouth phraseology. This was but too evident in his " Description concerning such mechanism as will afford a nice or true Mensuration of Time," &c. 1775, 8vo. This small work includes also an account of his new musical scale; being a mechanical... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...meaning by writing ; in which he adhered to a peculiar and uncouth phraseology. This was evident in his Description concerning such Mechanism as will afford a nice or true Mensuration of Time, &c., 8vo., 1775; in which he obstinately refused to accept of any assistance whatever. This work contains... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 620 pages
...to have erred only (bin- mid a half seconds. He died in 1776. He was die author of a tract, entitled a Description concerning such Mechanism as will afford a nice or true Mensuration of Time (1775, fivoA HARROW BV, Dudley Ryder, earl of, was born in 1762, and educated at St. John's, Cambridge.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 628 pages
...to have erred only four and a half seconds. He died in 1776. He was the author of a tract, entitled a Description concerning such Mechanism as will afford a nice or true Mensuration of Time (1775, Svo.j. HARROWBY, Dudley Ryder, earl of, was bom in 1762, and educated at St. John's, Cambridge.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 618 pages
...to have erred only four and n half seconds. He died in 177(i. He was the author of a tract, entitled a Description concerning such Mechanism as will afford a nice or true Mensuration of Time (1775, Svo.j. HARROWBY, Dudley Ryder, earl of, ЛУПЯ bom in 1762, and educated at St. John's, Cambridge.... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 820 pages
...died at his house in Red Lion-square, London, March 24, 1774. He was the author of a tract, entitled a " Description concerning such Mechanism as will afford a nice or true Mensuration of Time," 1775, 8vo. His un-" remitted pursuit of an exclusive object prevented him from acquiring literary knowledge,... | |
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A Description concerning such Mechanism as will afford a nice, or true Mensuration of Time; together with some Account of the Attempts for the Discovery of the Longitude by the Moon: as also an Account of the Discovery of the Scale of Music. 
