First Edition. 8vo. 175 leaves, plates. No copy was seen for collation.
Lowndes V, 2893.
Lalande, page 366.
William Whiston, 1667-1752, English divine, was a well known astronomer, and gave lectures on that subject at Button’s coffee-house, with
the help of his friends Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele.
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Ferguson’s Astronomy.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 115, no. 25, as above.
FERGUSON,
James.
Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s principles, and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics.
London: for the author,
1757.
4to. No copy was seen for collation.
Gray 75.
Lalande, page 462.
Houzeau, page 10, no. 61.
James Ferguson, 1710-1776, Scottish astronomer; see no. 3735.
This is the
second edition of this work, originally published in 1756.
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Gregory’s Astronomy.
2. vols.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 115, no. 6, as above.
GREGORY,
David.
The Elements of Physical and Geometrical Astronomy. By David Gregory, M. D. late Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Done into
English, with Additions and Corrections. The
Second Edition. To which is annex’d, Dr. Halley’s Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets. The whole newly Revised, and Compared with the
Latin, and Corrected throughout, by Edmund Stone, F. R. S. In
Two Volumes.
London: Printed for
D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns in St. Paul’s Church-Yard.
m dcc xxvi.
Price of the
Two Vols.
12 s. Bound. [1726.]
QB42 .G8
2 vol. 8vo., 264 and 224 leaves; the second volume is a reprint of that of the first edition, including the signatures and
pagination, which were continuous. Halley’s Synopsis (13 leaves) begins on page 881 of Vol. II; plates in both volumes.
Lowndes II, 940.
Lalande, page 381.
Houzeau, page 25, no. 187.
David Gregory, 1696-1767, [
should be “1661-1708”--
Ed.] Savilian professor of astronomy, was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. The first edition in Latin of this work was printed in
1702, and Stone’s first edition in English in 1715.
Edmund Stone, d. 1768, Scottish mathematician, was a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Edmond Halley, 1656-1742, English astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of twenty-two, and later became its
secretary.
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Institutions Astronomique de Le Monnier.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 115, no. 26, as above.
[KEILL,
John--
LE MONNIER, Pierre Charles.]
Institutions astronomiques, ou Leçons élémentaires d’astronomie, pour servir d’introduction à la physique céleste, & à la
science des longitudes, avec de nouvelles tables d’équation corrigées; et particulierement les tables du soleil, de la lune
& des satellites; précedées d’un essai sur l’histoire de l’astronomie moderne.
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