| Maggs Bros - Antiquarian booksellers - 1926 - 942 pages
...Richard Cotes, 1650. £] IDS ASTROLOGY, ASTRONOMY, ALCHEMY, Etc.— continued. 60 FERGUSON (James). ASTRONOMY EXPLAINED UPON SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S PRINCIPLES, and made easy to those who have 'not Studied Mathematics. With 13 engraved folding plates, illustrating astronomical instruments... | |
| World War, 1914-1918 - 1928 - 700 pages
...various branches of physical and astronomical science, and to drawing, and, greatest of all, in 1756, his "Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and made Easy to Those who have not Studied Mathematics," a work, needless to say, appreciated at home and abroad, and several... | |
| John Rylands Library - Libraries - 1917 - 556 pages
...Bibliotheca Graeca, sive notitia scriptorum veterum. Hamburgi, 1705-24. 12 rols. 4to. FERGUSON (James) Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics. The eleventh edition. London, 1803. 8vo. FLORUS (Lucius Annaeus) Epitome... | |
| Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie - Science - 1986 - 282 pages
...sell a multitude of scientific products that the author was vending. Dialogue form. Earlier book was Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics. London: printed for and sold by the author, 1756. Edwards, Samuel. The... | |
| John Keane - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 670 pages
...him a venerable look, and made him to appear older than he really was."21 Paine had probably read his Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics, published the previous year to considerable acclaim. He liked Ferguson's... | |
| Carl Lotus Becker - Philosophy - 2003 - 200 pages
...by Six Copper-Plates (1751), of which there appeared in due time five editions; or James Ferguson's Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and Made Easy to Those who have not Studied Mathematics (1756), which ran to seven editions; or Voltaire's Elements de la philosophic... | |
| Gerrit L. Verschuur - Science - 2003 - 332 pages
...thirty-five years old (1773), a book written by the amateur astronomer James Ferguson which bore the title Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics.-* It appears that the fear of mathematics kept potential students away... | |
| Robert E. Shalhope - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 352 pages
...Termination of the Roman Republic. 3 vols. Philadelphia: William Poyntell & Co., 1805. Ferguson, James. Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics. Philadelphia: Matthew Carey, 1 806. i Fielding, Henry. The History of... | |
| T. C. W. Blanning - History - 2007 - 764 pages
...great discoveries comprehensible to lesser mortals and to point out the implications. James Ferguson's Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and Made Easy to Those who have not studied Mathematics (1756) went through seven editions. In New Dialogues of the Dead (1683-4),... | |
| William Bainter O'Neal - Architecture - 1976 - 436 pages
...the first elementary writers on natural philosophy. He published many books, among them the titles Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics; An Easy Introduction to Astronomy, for Young Gentlemen and Ladies; Tables... | |
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