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Figure of the Moon’s Orbit in open Space. By Nehemiah Strong, M. A. Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in that College. Published for the Use, and at the Desire of the Students . . . New-Haven: Printed by Thomas & Samuel Green, 1784.
QB42 .S9
First Edition. Sm. 4to. 27 leaves, the last for the Corrigenda, 2 folded engraved plates by A. Doolittle.
Sabin 93066.
Evans 18797.
Trumbull 1474.
Dexter II, page 386.
Nehemiah Strong, 1729-1807, was educated at Yale, and was the first to occupy the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at that college. This work is dedicated to President Stiles from Yale-College, Nov. 1st, 1781.
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ii. CLAP, Thomas.
Conjectures upon the Nature and Motion of Meteors, which are above the Atmosphere. By Thomas Clap, A. M. Late President of Yale-College. Norwich: Printed by John Trumbull, for the Subscribers, m. dcc. lxxxi. [1781.]
QB741 .C6
First Edition. 4to. 8 leaves, B, C 4, half title on the first leaf, woodcut diagram on the last.
Not in Sabin.
Evans 17113.
Trumbull 479.
Sprague I, 348.
Thomas Clap, 1703-1767, graduated from Harvard College at the age of nineteen, and was elected rector of Yale College in 1739.
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Woodward on the Sun. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 21, as above.
WOODWARD, Augustus Brevoort.
Considerations on the Substance of the Sun. By Augustus B. Woodward. Washington, Metropolis of the United States of America: Printed by Way and Groff, September, 1801.
QB539 .W9
First Edition. 8vo. in fours, 44 leaves; dated at the end September 3d., 1801; license to print on the last leaf dated September 7.
Not in Sabin.
Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Vol. IV, page 123.
Augustus Brevoort Woodward, 1774-1827. This was Woodward’s first publication. For others, see the Index.
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Mackay’s Theory & Practice for finding the longitude at sea & land. 2. v. in 1. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 116, no. 10, Mackay’s Theory and Practice for finding Longitudes at Sea and Land, 2 v in 1, 8vo.
MACKAY, Andrew.
The Theory and practice of finding the Longitude at Sea or Land: to which are added, various Methods of determining the Latitude of a Place, and Variation of the Compass, with new Tables. The Second Edition, enlarged . . . Aberdeen: 1801.
8vo. 2 vol. in 1, engraved portrait.
Lowndes III, 1439.
Lalande, page 657.
This book is one on the list written by Jefferson on the back of a letter to him from N. G. Dufief, dated September 29, 1815, endorsed by Jefferson recd. Oct. 6.
Andrew Mackay, 1760-1809, Scottish methematician. [ sic -- Ed. ] The first edition of this work was published by subscription in London in 1793.
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