Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects, in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics, Geography, Astronomy, and Dialling: A New Edition Corrected and Enlarged with Notes and an Appendix, Adapted to the Present State of the Arts and Sciencespublished, 1814 - Astronomy |
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... earth 22 LECTURE III . 52 Of the mechanical powers LECTURE IV . Of mills , cranes , wheel - carriages , and the engine for driving piles LECTURE V. 80 Of hydrostatics , and hydraulic machines - Hydro- static paradox - Hydrostatic ...
... earth 22 LECTURE III . 52 Of the mechanical powers LECTURE IV . Of mills , cranes , wheel - carriages , and the engine for driving piles LECTURE V. 80 Of hydrostatics , and hydraulic machines - Hydro- static paradox - Hydrostatic ...
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... earth is round like a ball , and explained the map of it to me . I requested him to lend me that map , to take a copy of it in the evenings . He cheerfully consented , to this , giving me at the same time a pair of compasses , a rule ...
... earth is round like a ball , and explained the map of it to me . I requested him to lend me that map , to take a copy of it in the evenings . He cheerfully consented , to this , giving me at the same time a pair of compasses , a rule ...
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... earth at all times . So that , whenever the sun shone on the globe , one might see to what places the sun was then rising , to what places it was setting , and all the places where it was then day or night , throughout the earth ...
... earth at all times . So that , whenever the sun shone on the globe , one might see to what places the sun was then rising , to what places it was setting , and all the places where it was then day or night , throughout the earth ...
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... earth and moon in it , and would gladly have seen the wheel - work , which was concealed in a brass box , and the box and planets above it were surrounded by an armillary sphere . But * Cooper was master to the justly celebrated Mr ...
... earth and moon in it , and would gladly have seen the wheel - work , which was concealed in a brass box , and the box and planets above it were surrounded by an armillary sphere . But * Cooper was master to the justly celebrated Mr ...
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... earth and moon , and of the sun round its axis . I then employed a turner to make me à suffi- cient number of wheels and axles , according to patterns which I gave him in drawing : and after having cut the teeth in the wheels by a knife ...
... earth and moon , and of the sun round its axis . I then employed a turner to make me à suffi- cient number of wheels and axles , according to patterns which I gave him in drawing : and after having cut the teeth in the wheels by a knife ...
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Page 54 - ... 2. When the prop is at one end of the lever, the power at the other, and the weight between them.
Page xix - Beads upon it, at arms' 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 xxxv - ... my celestial map, in order to find the two opposite points of the ecliptic in which her orbit crosses it, I was altogether at a loss how and where in the ecliptic (in my scheme) to place these intersecting points : this was in the year 1739. At last, I recollected, that when I was with squire Grant, of...
Page xxvi - I saw the spring box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him what it was that made the box turn round ? He told me that it was turned round by a steel spring within it. Having then never seen any other spring than that of my father's...
Page xxix - ... sometimes on one side of a plain road and sometimes on the* other, crossing the road at small angles, but never going far from either side of it.
Page xlii - Having never had a grammatical education, nor time to study the rules of just composition, I acknowledge that I was afraid to put it to the press ; and for the same cause, I ought to have the same fears still.
Page xxviii - 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...
Page xxvi - But happening one day to see a gentleman ride by my father's house, which was close by a public road, I asked him what o'clock it then was : he looked at his watch, and told me. As he did that with so much...
Page 306 - The hour of the day at any place being given, to find what time it then is at any other place. Bring the given place to the brazen meridian, and set the index, to the given hour; then turn the globe, until...
Page 267 - ... and, consequently, it will magnify so much the more ; for the rays are not coloured by reflection from a concave mirror, if it be ground to a true figure, as they are by passing through a convex-glass, let it be ground ever so true.